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An Act for the relief of persons hiring negroes in certain cases. 1864 28 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0841 and id is 1 raw text is: AM-S OF Till 0ENERAL ASSIMUILY. 04111 Pridge ),.-I .. foro t. .Wl :iand sxty-five, all theights and privileges vested in the Iwrty, 1865, tiState by the forfeiture thereof by the said Indian Poll Sto e lie veted Bridge Company, are hereby vested in tie company to be I:3 11 comlpal 3' to r I oted.undr created under the provisions of this act, but the Tanners' 4st,, ro.Iu orCreek Draw Bridge Company shall pay to tile stocklollers of tile Indian Poll Draw Bridge Company, the value of the remaining property of the last-named company, the amount to be ascertained either by mutual agreement between the parties, by arbitrators agreed upon by the parties, or by five Commissioners, freeholders of the vicinity, to be ap- pointed by the Governor, upon the application of the Tan- ners' Creek Draw Bridge Company at any time after the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- five, in case of failure to agree or arbitrate as aforesaid. co,,,ile,, i,1c,,t. § 7. This act shall be in force from its passage. _O OIIAPTER XVI. An Act for the relief of persons hiring negroes in e'tafi cases. lasled February 7, 1865. reamble. WHE.REAS, Many citizens of this'Commonwealth, on or after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty- one, hired slaves of' sundry persons, owners of the same, I* became sureties fbr such hirers ; and whereas, such hiredI slaves, in many instances, were impressed or taken into the Confederate service or were madefree by going within the Federal lines, and by consequences the services of such slaves were lost and of' no avail to the hirers of the same- therefore, § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That in all actions in the Courts of this Commonwealth by such owners. )efco,,iL,,t ' or their assignees against the hirers of such slaves, after nuly altl c h caic c Iay plcd thlit the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the contract wag for the hire orOr against the sureties of' such hirers, the defendant in auy ulaves lotprne seh action may plead inl general terms, that the contract, eerN'Ice of tle assurance or writing on which the action idsrought, was or ( 0 n I S le rP e States or tLi e the hire of a slave or slaves inpressed or taken into tie ser- Urnltedi 1,a tes, . '' , ,,hi.h, If esta ice of the Confedcrat e St'ates, or nade frece by going with- i,,oal,,, ii the military lines of' tile United States, as the case may be, and under any such plea the defendant may give in evi- dence any fact tending to show that the contract, assurance, or writing, upon which the action was brought, was for ti hire of a slave or slaves impressed or taken into the Con- federate service, o1' made free by going within the military lines of the United States, and any such plea, if establish- Vd, shall be a bar against the recovery of the plaintiff in

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