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An Act amending the laws concerning emancipated slaves, free negroes and mulattoes. 1836 47 (1836)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0518 and id is 1 raw text is: Slaves, Free Negroes and fulattoes. 47 'duty of the clerk, justice, or other ministerial officer issuing such execution, to endorse thereon, as a guide to the sheriff or other offi- cer, as folloivs, viz: This (Jebt was contracted before the first-day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. 3. Be it firlher enacted, That whenever any debtor shall be in lonv ijoivent the custody of ally sheriff or other officer, by virtue of a capias ad ilitorsaIn exc-i. satisfaciendlum, growing out of any contract made, or cause of ac- U relioved. tion arising, subsequent to the said first day of.August, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, lie or she shall be at liberty to set apart the property heretofore mentioned, or so much thereof as he or she may have, and shall be at liberty to discharge himself or herself from such custody, according to the provisions of the several acts I Clev Codo for the relief of insolvent debtors, without being required to sur- 9p. 536. render the same or any p~art thereof. 4. Be it farther enacted, That whenever any person shall die Proporty or insoi. intestate, leaving a widow, or infant child or children, and possessed Ontl dying intas- of tile above namied property, or any part thereof, such widow, or betio l of wvidow de 'administrator or other legal representative of such decedent, and elldron. where there is no widow, shall be at liberty to retain the property as aforesaid, for the benefit of such widow or children, and the same shall not be liaLie to execution or seizute under any process whatsoever, except for liabilities contracted previous to the said first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven ; hut the same shall be vested in said widow, or where there is no widow, in the legal representatives of said decedent, for the benefit of his or her infant child or children, and tile same shall in no event be regarded as assets, except where there is no widow, or infant child or children. 5. Be it further enacted, That all mortgages, trust deeds and Moltgnges, lanp, liens upon tile property aforeniaed, exempt from execuim nten- & o exi, ,ipal h,.e,,-oll 1 tlet nlid ded to secure any debt or debts contracted after the said first ay of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, so far as they relate to said property, are hereby declared to be null and void ; and the Couts to grant i - 1110in gainst, county and corporation courts, as well as the circuit superior courts sale. of law and chancery, shall and may have jurisdiction to grant and try injunctions to arrest and( perpettually enjoin the sale of the property aforqsaid, when unlawfully taken in violation of the provisions of this act. 6. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of Au- Commeoncemnt. gust, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. CnAp. 70.-An ACT amending the laws concerning emancipated slaves, free negroes and mulattoes. tPassed March -1-, 18:37.) Whereas many petitions are annuially presented to the general roabio. assembly from emancipated slaves, praying permission to remain within the commonwealth, and it being time desire of the legislature to free itself from such subjects of legislation, antl to refer the same to some more appropriate tribunal, where the merits of such petitions may be more fully considered : 1. Be it therefore enacted by the general assentily, That any (nort, nulhiorlzod slave who hath been emancipated since the first day of May, eigh- o n Lan. patted( slatVa per. teen hundred and six, or whA may hereafter be eimacipated, shall ,uissiou to rtain be at liberty to apply to the court of any county or corporation for stato. permission to reside within such county or corporation ; and the

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