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An Act prohibiting Marriages between free persons of color and white persons. 1838-1839 33 (1838)

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imprisonment, under the same rules and regulations as are Prose uins,
prescribed for the discharge of debtors in execution, by the ed under the
first and fourth sections of said Act: Provided, That nothing Insolventlaws
herein contained shall be so construed as to release any per- Proviso.
son from imprisonment, who shall be in prison for any defi-
nite length of time, under sentence of any Court.
[Ratified 8th January, 1839.]
MARRIAGES.
CHAPTER XXIV.
AN ACT prohibiting Marriages betwcon free persons of
color and white persons.
Be it enacted' by the General dssembly of the State of
Mrigsbe-
North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority tan ft
of the same, That it shall not be lawful for any free negro groes or free
or free person of color to marr  a white person  and any prons of co-
or re prsn  f olr o  aryawhtpesnad an           lorand wyhiie!a
marriage, hereafter solemnized or contracted between any void.
free negro or free person of color and a white person, shall
be null and void.

[Ratified 8th January, 1839.

MARRIAGES.

1888-89.

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