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An Act to regulate the emancipation of slaves, and to provide for the transportation of free persons of color to the western coast of Africa. 1853-1854 121 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0173 and id is 1 raw text is: 121 CHAPTER L. AN ACT to regulate the emancipation of slaves, and to provide for the transportation of free persons of color to the western coast of Africa. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee. That hereafter all slaves in this State, acquiring a right to freedom, whether by contract or will. shall be transported to the western coast of Af- rica. If the slave shall be liberated by will, it shall be the duty of the executor or administrator; if by con- tract, the duty of any justice of the peace, sheriff, clerk, constable or register, who may have any knowledge of the facts, to file a petition in the circuit court of the county in which such slave resides, setting forth the facts; copies of which petition shall be served on the slave, on the former master, or if deceased, on his execu- tor or administrator. The court shall have power, from time to time, to make all necessary penalties. If a fund shall have been raised for the purpose of trans- porting such slave to the western coast of Africa, it shall be paid into court and the court shall have power to issue attachments executions and other process ne- cessary to secure such fund. The former master may, in said cause. controvert the right of the slave to freedom. If afund sufficient to pay the expense of transporting such slave, and to provide for its support for six months there- after, shall not have been provided by the former own- er or by other persons, it shall be the duty of the court to place such slave in the possession of the clerk of said court, who shall hire out said slave until a fund suffi- cient for the purpose aforesaid shall have been raised. The clerk shall report what he has done to every term of the court. Whenever the fund contemplated in this act shall be sufficient, it shall be the duty of the judge to notify the governor of the State of the fact, and to or- der the clerk to pay the money into the treasury of the State. The governor shall make the necessary arrange- ments for conveying such slave to some seaport town of the United States, for transporting such slave to the western coast of Africa, and for providing for his or her support for six months thereafter; the expenses shall be paid out of the fund aforesaid, and shall be subject to the draft of the governor. The money arising from the hire of slaves liberated under the same contract or will, shall be a joint fund for the benefit of all who claim their freedom under such contract or will. If a suit has been, or shall hereafter be brought by any slave in any court

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