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An Act authorizing the Common Council of the City of Petersburg to declare what in said city shall be an unlawful assemblage of negroes, and to prescribe the punishment therefor. 1861 261 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0777 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWFUL FENCE.-UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLAGE OF NEGROES. 261 eighteen hundred and sixteen, and recorded in the county court of said county, as a place for public worship: and whereas it is repre- sented that said property is no longer desired as a place of worship by any persons entitled to use it as such: Therefore, 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that any citizen of the Itow property town of Moorefield, upon giving at least four weeks' notice by pub- may be sold lication in a newspaper published in Moorefield, may, by petition, apply to the said county or circuit court of Hardy county, to make sale of said lot; which application may be contested by any one op- posed to such sale; and the said court, after examining such wit- nesses as may be produced before it, and hearing all parties, may decree a sale of said property in such manner and on such terms as it may deem just, and direct the proceeds to be appropriated for the Proceeds, benefit of the poor of said county, or for educational purposes therein, how pllcd as it may think proper. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement CHAP. 180.-An ACT constitutiifg a part of the Ohio River a lawful fence. Passed March 27, 1861. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the Ohio river, from Part of Ohio the lower end of David Long's farm, adjoining the town of Point e lawful Pleasant in Mason county, up to the mouth of 'Mill creek in said county, a distance of about seven and a half miles, be and the same is hereby constituted a lawful fence. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement CHAP. 181.-An ACT authorizing the Common Council of the City of Pe- tersburg to declare what in said city shall be an unlawful assemblage of negroes, and to prescribe the punishment therefor. Passed April 2, 1861. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the common coun- Unlawful cil of the city of Petersburg may declare what in said city shall b assemblage, uuhow declared an unlawful assemblage of negroes, and may empower the officers of police of said city to enter the place of such assembly and seize such negroes, and may prescribe the punishment of such negroes and the fine to be imposed on a person permitting such an unlawful assembly on his lot or tenement. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement

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