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An Act concerning free negroes and mulattoes. 1844-1845 753 (1844)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0067 and id is 1 raw text is: NEGROES AND MULATTOES.                                   753
CHAP. 123.
money absolutely, and any other damages he may be able to
prove he has sustained, to be recovered in any court of com-
petent jurisdiction.
SEC. 24. Any attorney in fact, to whom the money due on Attorney in
fact empower-
any mortgage is paid, shall have power to execute said release, ed to execute a
as specified in section twenty-two of this act: such acknow- feed of ec
lease. Effect
ledgment of satisfaction thus made, or such deed of release of such deed.
duly acknowledged- and recorded, shall have the effect to
release the mortgage, and bar all actions brought thereon, and
re-vest in the mortgagor or his legal representatives, all title
to the mortgaged property.
SEC. 25. If such mortgaged property be redeemed by pay- Redemption
ment to the officer before the sale, such officer shall make a certificate to
certificate thereof, and acknowledge the same before some he given.
officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds for lands;
and such certificate shall be recorded in the office in which To be record-
shal hav  thesameeffet ased, effect,
the mortgage is recorded, and shall have the same effect asthereof.
satisfaction entered on the margin of the record.
Approved March 20, 1845.
CHAPTER 123.
NEGROES AND MULATTOES.
AN ACT concerning free negroes and mulattoes.
szc. 1. Who deemed a mulatto.     SEc. 11. License to be granted, when ,
2. Negro or mulatto not to carry      what it shall contain.
arms without a license.          H     thenticated.
3. Weapons found in possession of  13. Authority of license.
negro or mulatto, shall be for-  14. Co   license shall not be
feited.                           granted, until, &z.
4. County court to bind as appren-  15. Duty of officers 0 seize copies
tices, free negroes or mulattoes  of liccnses and free papers,
between the ages of 7 and 21.     when
5. How the courts shall proceed in  16. Duty of clerks relative to copies
such cases.                       of licenses and free papers.
6. Clerk to keep a register; what  17. Violationoflawcdeemeda violt-
he shall enter therein.           tion of the conditions of the
7. Free negro or mulatto, not to re-  bond.
side in this state without a li-  18. County court may declare li-
cense.                            cense revoked, when.
8. County courts authorized to   19. Duty of free negro or mulatto
grant licenses.                   moving from one county to
9. To whom license shall be grant-    another.
10. Evidence to be produced to    21. This act to extend to persons
county court before license       whose right of freedom was
granted.                          acquired out of this state.
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