GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831

account to be removed, shall desire to renounce the freedom

CHAP. 281.

so intended by the said deed or will to be given, then if

shall and may be competent to such slave or slaves, to re-
nounce, in open court, the bencefit of said deed or will, and

to continue a slave.

Sec. 5, And be it enacted, That it shall and may be com-

Orphans court
authorised to grant

petent for the orphan's court of this state, and for Balti-

annual permits for
slaves to remain.

more city court, to grant annually a permit to any slave or

slaves so permitte'd as aforesaid, to remain as free in said

county, in cases where the said courts may be satisfied by

respectable testimony, that such slave or slaves so manu-

mitted, deserve such permission on account of their extra-

ordinary good conduct and character; Provided, such per-

Proviso.

mit shall not exempt any manumittor or his representatives,

or his estate, from any liability to maintain any hereafter

emancipated slave, who, at the time his or her right to

freedom accrues, may be unable to gain a livelihood, or be

over forty-five years of age at said time, and afterwards be-

come unable to maintain himself and herself.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the said board of mana-

The board autho-

gers, shall in all cases where the removal of a slave or slaves

rised to hire out
manumitted per-

manumitted as aforesaid, shall devolve upon them, have full

sons to pay expen-
ses of removal.

power and authority, whenever the same shall be necessary,

and can be done with advantage, to hire out such slave or

slaves so manumitted and so to be removed, until their

wages shall produce a sufficient sum to defray all expenses

attending their removal, and necessary support at the place

or places of such removal

Sec 7. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of the wes-

Treasurer autho-
rised to borrow

tern shore is hereby authorised and required, for the pur-
pose of paying for the transportation of the colored popula-

20,000 dollars and
issue certificates of
stock.

tion of this state, to borrow, on the credit of the state, in

certificates of stock, not less than one thousand dollars each,

the sum of twenty thousand dollars, redeemable at the ex-

piration of fifteen years, at a rate of interest not exceeding

five per cent per annum; and the faith of the state is hereby
pledged for the payment of the said principal when due,
and the interest accruing semi-annually until paid; and the

Pledge to redress

money so borrowed, is hereby appropriated to pay for the

The money appro-

removal of the free colored population of the several coun-

priated.

ties of this state; and the said treasurer is also required to

borrow, on similar terms, and payable at the lapse of fif-

teen years from the date of the loan, such furth er sum or

Further leaves

sums as may be required to pay the expenses incurred un-

authorised

dor this law, in removing the free people of color in this

state to Liberia or elsewhere, beyond tfee limits of this

Limitation

state; Provided always, That the amount of loans made,

shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars.