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APPROVED, February 17, 1854.
[No. 52.] AN ACT
To define the rights, duties and privileges of free persons
of color residing in this State.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Nouate and .House of .&p-
resentatives of the State of A alulma in General Assembly con-
vened, That all free persons of color over the age of fourteen ni usualIes&a
years shall have the right of choosing a guardian, whose rreepersonsor
duty it shall be to see that said free person or persons of
color are protected and provided for, and that all appled
tions for guardianship shall be made to the judge of probate
in the county where said applicant resides.
SEc. 2. Be it junrther enacted, That all guardians under Duy or guar.
the provisions of this act shall keep an account current be- is-l.
tween himself and the free person of color for whom he is
guardian, and make an annual exhibit of the same to the
judge of probate, who shall record the same; and said
guardian shall be liable as other guardians are under exist-
ing laws for all moneys had or received; and when the person
of color is under twenty-one years of age, then the guar-
dian shall keep at interest all moneys in hand, after paying
annual expenses, until the said minor free person of color
is twenty-one years of age; and said guardian hereafter
appointed shall have power to collect, settle and adjust all
amounts due any free person of color who m-y choose a
guardian under the provisions of this act.
SEC. 3. .1 l be i/ furthce Pha td, That the judge of probate rowers or Juages
shall have power to appoint guardians for all free persons of probato.
of color under fourteen years of age; and whenever lie
may think the interest of any free person of color under
twenty-one years may be advanced by binding them out to
some competent person for the purpose of learning a trade,
he may do so: P,'odded, The free person of color if, over
fourteen years, is, with his guardian, willing to the same,
AmenovEu, February 18, 1854.
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