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An Act authorizing Sarah W. Harper to remove certain dower slaves beyond the limits of the commonwealth. 1838 217 (1838)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0535 and id is 1 raw text is: Sale of Real Estate.-IRemoval of Slaves. 217 aforesaid, in equal shares; subject, however, to a provision, that if the widow shall marry, then she is to have any equal share with the children, and no more ; that the widow and children are not likely to remove to tile said tract of land in this commonwealth; and that their interest manifestly requires a sale of the land aforesaid Therefore, 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That tile county court Court or Name. MI• ronld to Huthbt'ize of Nausemond county shall have power and authority to authorizeSio or into or Edmund Godwin, administrator of the estate of the said Peter Ze- hoir- or votor lull in the state of Virginia, to sell and convey the tract of laud in zoltui; decda d. the county of Nansemond, which belonged to the said Peter Zeluff at the time of his death, on such terms Ps the said court may deem expedient, and decree the mode in which lie shall account for the bonds, or other proceeds of the said sale, to those entitled thereto, having first required of the said administrator a new bond, with such security as the said court shall deem sufficient, condi- tioned to perform the decree or the said court, and account for the proceeds of the said sale to the parties entitled thereto, according to tile directions of the court. And should tile said Godwin refuse or neglect to give such bond, with such security, within two months after the passage of this act, or should the court deem it proper to appoint some other person than the said Edmund Godwin, the said court shall appoint some other fit person to carry the sale into effect, taking bond ant security as aforesaid. 2. And be itfurlthcr enacted, That the proceeds of tile sale of the P'occ°oelor Salo said land shall pass to tile same persons, and in the same propor-l io I'il' to tions, as tile real estate would have passed iad this act never been enacted. 3. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof. Colmenceruent. CnHA'. 29G.-An ACT authorizing Sarah NV. Harper to remove certain dower slaves beyond the limits o' the commonwealth. (Paused January 21, 1838.) Whereas it is represented to the general assembly by Sarah W. Crontile. Harper, widow and relict of William 11. T. larper, deceased, of the county of Dinwiddie, that her said husband departed this life in tlhe year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, leaving the following children, to wit: AMary J. Harper, who has intermarried with tich- ard Howard, James W,, John P., George B., Sarah W., Harriet R. and Thomas B. T. Harper ; the six last named are infants, and of whom the said Sarah W. has become the guardian ; that in the di- vision of the estate of the said William 11. T., there were assigned to the said Sarah W., his widow, as dower in the slaves of her said husband, seven negroes, one man valued at fifty dollars less thain nothing, two women and four children ; that the petitioner is de- sirous of removing beyond the limits of the comnmonwealith with her children and the dower slaves so assigned her, (her securities in her guardian bond being willing and assenting thereto,) has petitioned the general assembly for permission so to do, without incurring the forfeiture imposed by law: Therefore, 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the said Sarah A~thrin, to 81. l a ph lrer to IV. rarper, widow as aforesaid, shall be, and she is hereby autlo-re.ove blavos rized and permitted to carry beyond the limits of the common- fro, stea. wealth, into the state of Missouri, or elsewhere within the United States, the slaves held by her as aforesaid, without incurring the * s

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