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An Act to amend an act therein named. 1839 130 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0251 and id is 1 raw text is: 1840.                               130
lected, on the warrant of the Judge of the county court, authorizing;
him to do so.
Sec. U. .and be it further enacted, That all laws and parts a1
Repeat..  laws, contravening the provisions of this act, be, and the same are
hereby repealed.                     Approved, Feb. 4, 1849.
[No. 70.1                 AN ACT
To amond an act therein named, approved. January 13th, 1827.
Whereas, the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, on the
13thl day ofJanuary, 1827, passed an act entitled an act to emanei-
pate certain slaves therein named, for the purpose of legalizing the
emancipation of sundry persons of color, residing below the thirty*
Preamble.  first degree of north latitude, and descendants of the ancient Creole
population of Florido; reciting that this description of persons would
have been entitled to this privilege, under the Spanish Government,
of which they were native subjects; and which act, in order to enable
Auguste Laeosteto execute and fulfill the provisions of the last will
and testament of his mother, Euphraise Lacoste, did, among others,
emancipate and forever free from slavery and bondage, a negro slave
named Marie, and her three children, named Celine, John Baptiste,
and Alexander; and requiring the said Auguste Lacoste, to enter into
hod, that said negroes should not become a public charge to the
State, or to any county, city or town theref; and whereas, it ap.
pears that the said Auguste Lacoste, did in his life time, either
through negligence or inability, fail to give such bond and security as
would he accepted by the Judge of the County Court of Mobile
county, and hath lately deceased, without performing the duty in
said act prescribed; now therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Scnate and House of Represen-
storieand her tatives of the Stale of Alabama in General Assembly convened,
to give bond. That the said negroes,.Marie, and her said thice children, named Ce.
line, John Baptiste, and Alexander, (or the servivors of them,) in or-
der to entitle them to the benefits of the said act of January 13th, 1827,
by which they were declared emanciphted, he, and they are hereby
required tQ enter into bond, by their guardian, agent, or next friend,
with good and sufficient security, in the penal sum of two thousand
dollars, tobo approved by the Judge of the county court of Mobile
county, and filed in the-office of the clerk of said court; which bond.
shall be made payable to. the Governor of the State of Alabama, for
the time being and hissuccessorsin'office; and conditioned, that the
said negro woman Melarie, and her said three children, Celine, John
Baptiste, and Alexander, or such of them as may be living at the time
of executing said bond, shall noi become a public charge to the State
at Alabama,.or to any county, city, or town thereof.
Sec. 2. A2nd, be itlurther enacted, That the bond given agreea-
bly to the provisions of this act, shall in all respects stand in the place
of, and be as effectual as, the bond prescribed in the act to which this
:.ao.lmelidmellt.                  Approved, Feb. 5, 1840.

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