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An Act to enable John Price to bring certain negro slaves into this State, from the State of Maryland, and retain them as such. 1824 372 (1824)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0071 and id is 1 raw text is: OF DELAWARE. CHAPTER CCXXXVII. Cur. COXXXVIH. AN ACT to enable John Price to brng certain 1824. negro slaves into this State, from the State of Maryland, and retain them as such. I'ASSED AT DOVER, PRIVATE ACT. January 31, 1824. P CHAPTER CCXXXVIII. AN ACT authorizing the personsytherein named to raise a sum not exceeding six thousand dol- lars, by a lottery, for the purpose of erecting an academy &c. in the village of Middletown, in the State of Delaware. SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House qf Representatives of the State of Del- aware in General Assembly met, That it shall and Lone so. may be lawful for the persons hereinafter appointedthorize'. managers, to institute, carry on and draw a lottery, in one or more classes, for raisig a sum of money hot exceeding six thousand dollars, clear of all ex- penses; and the said sum, when so raised, shall beAgpropriaton of sum raised applied to the erection of a building sufficiently thereby. large to contain rooms for an academy and for ele- mentary schools, and also a room for public worship, with such other room or rooms as they may think proper and necessary: Provided however, that the room for public worship shall be free for all deno- minations of Christians. SEC T10 N 2. And be it enacted, That Richard managers Mansfield, Arnold Naudain, Outten Davis, Willi.appointed-- im H. Crawford and Richard E. Cochran be and they are hereby appointed managers of the said lot- tery; and that they the said managers, before en-togive boa& tering upon the duties required by this act, shall $ive bond jointly and severally to the governor of 6 $72

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