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An Act to pardon a certain negro man named Jerry. 1797 29 (1797)

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mer, 11at ls etxcellencythe g nvor  , autho is. eewby m rd an4  qui*id-to ifi
arrants ion the trefuicd forb x)d iyediately  tIbi
Lone .,aqhmay hAb   aie    u' depoliRd SIonies,.  .       ock u    fupdsofth
Sltates,. or waants its part or in whole-psynent dfpnrk'fed tharc'of the aid prettded p
ed territory, .underan ufurped ad paldf at Augutfa on the.ev e .dayofJn  ' 1iu..kyar.oe
thourfhd cven hundred andbinedy-fhic, imder the pietended title of' aa a&i4 peowvtaay to
a& njitled, on ad forappropriatirg a part of the unloCated territory of this &teforthe paymen
6f the hte iatc troops, and iot othei purpofes thcrrin mentioned  dc ting'the right of tlsq fith
to the unappro riated tcrritory thereof, for the pratedion of the frontiers. and forither ppipoles
Provided, Tt the.xifque attending.rhe kecpi ng of the futn orfurnt to paid in, be dieeie4dand
is hereby declared to Iiy entirey with'the perfons who depofited tbemand..that any-CI  , pf
guards brothcrexcnfes for the afe kecpingtheitof be deduded th'ereroarn.4  ,  ..  6
And prvdd, That application-be.made for the furns (o depofitcd on or before
of Junc one thoufAnd feven hundred and niiety-Cight.  .    ...                     . r
4XND WHEREAS in and by an at pafred the thirteenth ay pl Febru.ry in thc year onctheio.
rand (even hundred and nincty-fix, annulling the' aid durped ac pfcd the feventh day.pf  ary
in the year one 'thoufand (even hundred and nipcty-five. the. ecretaty,  u).e     l
other public officers were rcquired within three days alter the paffing tde fame to pruc o
legiflature all deeds and documents rlalting to the precnded atof the weini rcrter  1this
flate to be expunged thcrcfrom. i6 order that no trace of (1o infAmous it ritfalionfij6jd rei
in the public offices of the flte; and it appears that cirkt from tlk in lilition of the s  frer  of
the (ate at that' period or through miflake or negicd acertain prcomdcd inrgages relativ
a'nd given by the.prctended -urchalcrs, which wcre'enter d in the book of tortg g-s. akt
in (te fajd ofFce, wcre -neglcLedto be pruduced to the late kgiflature to bcrxp',ung  jrom~the
faid book and burnt in confority to the concurredt refolution under. the uthority of the (aid ai e
Be it terefore enaried,That the faid book E E thll on the day afiec the paflng of this ad be
brought into' the rcprcentativc <hambcr, and then.and.therc, at or abou! th hour of twelve o'clock
cif the id day, the thid prctended mortgages entered in the fail book  . frm page one hundred
and thirt -three to page one jiundred and ,fity-twd, incluive,. ihall be cArdully expunged from.
thc faid  ook E E, and burnt in the prcfcnce of the fenate ind houfe of reprefentatives, and the
prefidentf of the fcniie and (peaker of th Choufc of reprdefnt2tives (hall delignate under their handi,
ona fheet of paper to b6 inferted or pafled'on in the place from whence thv (hiallbc le takcn,-the
a4uhority for which the fame was done, and the, number of pages .to cxputigu..,       N I
-             DAVID. MERIWETHER, Speaker tf dl Hofe of
DAVID' EMANUEL,' Pr dent of be          e.
'JARED IRWIN;- G>t;twor.
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E henacted  tir Senate an Houfe of< ret ti  in Geneial )ffar
. riy of thbe)m  Thd t ll:*8 don Ot here y,.jranzed t 6' e  mnn by thena  e
r dpcrty.of Bcnjanilif.KidbeiY now inder ftntno of  atb i  coQnty
.DAVID .MERWETHERt.(            i.'ete i    f     Rp e
.  -  .  .     (   -DAVID EJMANUEL,.P        detefsha    e; w  .--.*   '
Concurred. Firuary 13,.1797*.                           .IZ4b-.'. -vd.11Netf4
JARED IRWIN, Gowrnr,                -             .

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