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An Act to manumit certain persons therein named. 1799 23 (1799.11)

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AN        ACT
fo manmit ccrtain pefonx therein named.
W      IEREAS James King, late of the city of
Charleflon, deceafrd, did by his laft will
and teflament, bearing dae the twenty-fixth day
of March, in the year of our Lord one thoufind
feven hundred and ninety-feven, dirc61 his execu-
tors therein named  to take care of, and manu-
mit as foon as poflible, his two nzgrozs Lewis
and China.
AND WHEREAs Alexander King and Jofluta
Moore, the executors named in the ftid lait will
and teflamcnt of the faid James King, have by
petition applied to the prelent legillature, praying
that the benevolent intentions of the faiid Jaunes
King towards the faid negroes be carried into
ef fet:
Sec. i. Be it therefore endled by the Senate
mnd H1o/fi' of Reprefentativer qf the St'Iate of Gcogiai
in General Ajenb/v met, That the faid negroes
Lewis and China be, and they are hereby manu-
mitted and made free, and they are hereby entitled
-to the fame privileges and immunities as if they
Jiad been born free.
AND WHEREAS Ezekiel Hudnall has by his
petition prayed the legiflature to manumit the fol,
lowing flaves: Bridget Waters and her children,
Leviny, Nancy, Daniel and Syrus.
Sec. 2, Be it enacted, That the faid Bridget,
Leviny, Nancy, Daniel and Syrus fhall be, and
they arc hereby declared to be free and manumit-
ted according to the prayer of the Lhid petition.
AND WHEREAS it appears to this prent ge-
neral affemably that a certain Harry M'Clendon,
.1 forrn'-dIv

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