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An Act to amend the 17th paragraph of section 397 of the Code of Alabama. 1855 25 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0489 and id is 1 raw text is: 25                        1855-'56.
amoint appropriated by thid siectioir  all not
exceed three hundred dollars.
APPROVED, Feb, 7 1856.
[No. 36.]          AN ACT
To amend the ['th paragraph of sectioiv 3971of
the Code of Alabama.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse
of Representatives of the State of Alabama in Gene-.
ral Assembly convened, That the seventeenth para-
graph of Section 397, of the Code, is lideby so
amended that no auctioneer, broker, or agent, for
the sale of slaves, shall be required to pay any tax
or to procure a license for the sale, offer, of' eipo- Not to pay Ii.
sure for sale of .any slave, made by such auctioneer, cease.
broker or agent in any county in this State; Pro- ProviSO.
vided, That the oWner or owners, or any one of
them, or the auctioneer, br6ker, or agent will make
affidavit in writing to whom such slave belongs,
and that such owner or owners of such slaves are
residents of this State, and have owned such slave
for more than one year immediately preceding suich
sale, offer, or exposure for sale within this State;
and shall file such affidavit with the Judge of
Probate, in every county where such slave is sold,
offered, or exposed for sale.
ic. 2. And be it futrther enacted, That this act
shall be so coistrued as to apply only to such slaves
as may be sold by any trader, broker, auctioieer,
or agent on commission for citizens of the State and Sold for citi-
which slaves have been owned in the State for more
than one year preceding the sale, and shall in no case
apply to any slave owned by any trmader, broker,
auctioneer, or other personr selling slaves onspecu-
lation, or as a business; and the affidavit required
in the preceding section shall set forth these facts.
APpiRovED, Feb. 7, 1836.

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