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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0672 and id is 1 raw text is: % SEc. 2. Be it further ordained, That all bills, bonds,
notes, or evidences of debt, outstanding and unpaid,
Obligations given for or in consideration of bonds or treasury notes
Void. of the so-called Confederate States, or notes or bonds
of this State paid and redeemable in the bonds or notes
of the Confederate States, are hereby declared null and
void, and no action shall be maintained thereon in the
courts of this State.
SEC. 3. And be it further ordained, and it is hereby
declared, That there is a failure of consideration, and
it shall be so held by the courts of the State, upon all
deeds or bidls of sale, given for slaves, with covenants
Failure of of warranty of title or soundness, or both, and upon
considoration. all bills, bonds, notes, or other evidences of debt, given
for or in consideration of slaves, which are now out-
standing and unpaid, and no action shall be maintained
thereon, and that all judgments and decrees rendered
in any of the courts of this State since the 11th day of
Jarduary, 1861, upon any deeds or bills of sale, or upon
any bond, bill, note, or other evideice of debt based
upon the sale or purchase of slaves, are hereby declared
set aside, and the plea of failure of consideration shall
be held a good defense in all actions to said suit ; Pro-
Proviso. vided, That settlements and compromises of such trans-
actions, made by the parties thereto, shall be respected.
Passed, December 6, 1867.
No. 89.] AN ORDINANCE
To declare void certain judgments, and to grant new
trials in certain cases therein mentioned.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of the State
Judgments of Alabama in Convention assembled, That in all cases
void. where judgments have been rendered on penal statutes,
where the object was declared in the statute to assist in
carrying on the late war against the United States, such
judgments be, and the same are hereby declared void
and inoperative.
SEc. 2. Be it further ordained, That parties against
whom judgments or decrees were rendered in courts of
t record, after the 11th day of January, 1861, and up to
the time of the adoption of this ordinance, shall be en-
1868A
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