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An Act to explain an act, entitled an act concerning free persons of color 1833 99 (1833)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0109 and id is 1 raw text is: 99 after the first day of Fedruary next, one plow, one hoe, one set of gears for plowing, one Ion wedge, and one farm horse, mule or yoke of oxen. SEc. 2. Be it enacted, That there shall in like ianner- be mechanical exempt, one set of mechanical tools, such as is usually tools. employed by, and necessary for one workman, at any particular trade: Provided, the defendant in the execution who may claim the exemption of such set of tools, shall usually follow such trade as an employment. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That all property exempted from Exemption ex- execution by this act, and all former acts of the General tnde to wid. Assembly, shall in like manner be exempt in the hands of ow, &Ct the widow, executor, administrator, or heirs of a deceased debtor. Snc. 4. Be it enacted, That all property exempt from Exempted from execution by this act, as well as all former acts of the atachment. General Assembly, shall also be exempt from seizure by attachment. SEc. 5. Be it enacted, That the benefits of this act shall Act only ex- extend only to the heads of families. ofoa to heds F. W. HULING, Speaker qf the House of Representatives. D. BURFORD, Passed November 26, 1838. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER LXXXI. An Act to explain an act, entitled can act concerning free persons of color, and for other purposes,'passed December 16, 1831. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the second section of the above recited act, shall not be so construed as to extend to the case of any slave, or slaves, who had bonafide contracted for his, her or their freedom, previous to the passage of said act. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That in all cases hereafter, Of contracts where any application shall be made to the county court for freedom of any county in this State to emancipate a slave, and it of1heact shall appear by satisfactory evidence to said court, that said slave had in good faith contracted for his or her free- dom, previous to the passage of said act, then it shall be the duty of said court before which said application is made, to emancipate such slave, if in the opinion of said court it ought to be done, under the same rules, regulations and restrictions which were in force and use in such cases before the passage of the aforesaid recited act; and said slave, when so emancipated, shall be exempt from all the Digitized from Best Copy Available

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