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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0257 and id is 1 raw text is: V See acts of
1812, chap. 18,
page 26.
Commencement.
11 u To1t1, FO.TY. Yxt.1~ :oE Tha oMubtJ .gfL li
1. Dickenson,AlmallJ withift sixty days from the passage ot'
th'is aet, conlrm to, the requisitions contained in Ie prd.,
Viso to tho first section of an act, entitled, ,IAn 'atit con-
eelmng slaves, passed on the ninth day of' January one
thousand - eight hundred and thirteen, except so: far. as that
act requires an oath, that: (lie said slave was not brotight in.
to this state in aay manner opotrary to the provisions o'
that act.
2. '.his nt shall be in force from ithe passing thereor.
[Passed February 1.7th, 1817.
CHlAPTEIR 13O.-An Act authorizing Horsey Somers and Charles Rue to
rctain certain slaves in this commonwealth.
Preamble. WHEREASU't is represented to the General Assembly,
by Iloisey Soners and Charles Rue, thai, in lie early part
of last year, they caused to be renovd from tie state ofM-.
ryland into lhis oinimonwealth two negro slaves whieh U'ire
given theni by I-aae Somers, without the previous know-
ledge, that such removal was inhibited by tile laws of this
state ; and tie said Horsey Somers and Charles Rae ]aMV-
ing petilioned tie Legislature to be aumthoized to retain the
said slaves therein
Uorsey Somers *I. ]3eit e'nurted, That tie said fIor'iey Soiners and Charles
And 01ries Rue Rle, shall lbe, and are herelby authorized and empowered to
authorized to hol t he said two slaves, knowtn by the mlmes of Lambert
hold in this state
certain laves n eom'-ge, in this eoinmonwealth. fiee fioil anv' fine, peni-
brouglit ill from alty or f1illeituve whatsoever, ie'red or to le incurred by
Maryland. reason otheir removal into this state as alforesaid :.Povid.,
roviso. ed, that the said lHorsey Somers and Charles lve shall,
w ithi! sixty (lays from tile passage of this act, Con1,rm to
the requisitions contained in tile proviso of the first section of
(11 See acts of an aot, entitled, ,, An act concerning slaves, passed on tie
1812, ch. 18, ninth day of January one thousand eight hunthed and itii.-
Pa. 26..
teen, except mo far as ihat act requires an oati, that the said
slaves were not brouht into this state in aMy manlier con-
trary to the provisions of that act.
Commencement. 2. This act shall commence and be in foree from and after
the passing thereof. [Passed Fertrnari b!h, 1817..
CIIAPrER 131.-An Act tn enable James T. Watson to redeem a certain
tract of land in the county of t'abell, which vested in the president and di.
rectors of the literary fund, at the sales for taxes in that county, ill August
one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
Errors in the I. Be it enacted 14j the neral .Issenblij That the autdior
taxation ot a of public accounts be, and is hereby authorized to correct
tract of land be. time errors in the taxation o a tract of seventy thousand two
longing to hundred and two acres of'land, owned by James T. Watson,
fuls I Wat. ratd situated in tie county of Cahell, which tract of land was
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rected by the taxed and charged on the books of (lie commissioner s ol tle
auditor. revenc, o1'fliat eounty, in tle name or Samuel Al. lIHopkins,
it the years one thousand eight hundred and nine, ten, ein.
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