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An Act to enable Ned Adkins and other free persons of color therein named to become slaves. 1859 599 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0535 and id is 1 raw text is: 699                            1859-'60.
No. 468.]             AN ACT
To authorize the Administratrix of the estate of John M.
Andrews, to remove the administration from the County
of Ooosa to the County of Chambers.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the &nate and Housd of Represent-
atives of the State of Alabama ih General Assembly convened,
That Rebecca Andrews, administiatrix of the estate of Jbbn
M. Andrews, be authorized to move the administration and
property of said estate from the county of Coosa to the
county of Chambers, and that the judge of probate of the
county of Coosa, be authorized and required to send atran-
script, properly certified, of the proceedings heretofore had
in said court, in relation to said estate: Provided, the said
Rebecca Andrews. shall first give bond tn the judge of
probate of Chambers county, as at present vequired of ex-
ecutors and administrators: Provided, Thai, the creditors of
said' estate are willing to the removal.
APPROVED, February 23, 1860.
No. 469.]             ,AN ACT
To enable Ned Adkins and other free persons of color
therein named to become slaves.
SEO.1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of -Represent-
atives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened,
That Ned Adkens, a free man of color about sixty years
old, now living with- Thomas Williams, of 'Coosa county, Ned adken..
be, and he is hereby authorized to appear in the probate
court of said county, and file his declaration in writing,
signed by him, conveying himself as a slave for life to
Mistress Inda Ware, of the city of Selma, in the county of
Dallas, to her sole and separate-use; and upon said free
man of color acknowledging that he signed, sealed and de-
livered said paper to said probate judge for the purposes
therein contained, the same shall be duly recorded and
certified by said judge, who shall receive therefor the usual
fees from said Mistress Ware, or her agent or attorney, and
the said Ned Adkens shall, therefore, become the slave of
the said lady and subject to all the laws governing slaves
in this State, and his mistress shall be liable for said slave
as other owners of slaves are.

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