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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.
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least, grant to such slave or slaves his, her or their freedom; and
that nay deed or writing whereby
freedom shall be given or granted to any such slave, which shall be
intended to take place in future,
shall be good to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever,
from the time that such freedom
or manumission is intended to commence by the said deed or writing,
so that such deed and writing
be not in prejudice of creditors, and that such slave, at the time
such freedom or manumission shall
take place or commence, be not above the age aforesaid, and be able
to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance, according to the true intent and meaning
of this act; which instrument
or writing shall be acknowledged before one justice of the peace of
the county wherein the person
or persons granting such freedom shall reside, which justice shall
endorse on the back of such instrument
the time of the acknowledgement, and the party making hte same, which
he or they, or the
parties concerned, shall cause to be entered among the records of the
county court where the person
or persons granting such freedom shall reside, within six months after
the date of such instrument of
writing; and the clerk of the respective county courts within this
state shall, immediately upon the
receipt of such instrument, endorse the time of his receiving the same,
and shall well and truly enrol
such deed or instrument in a good and sufficient book in folio, to
be regularly alphabeted in the names
of both parties, and to remain in the custody of the said clerk for
the time being among the records
of the respective county courts, and that hte said clerk shall, on
the back of every such instrument,
in a full legible hand, make an endorsement of such enrolment, and
also of the folio of the book in
which the same shall be enrolled, and to such endorsement set his hand,
the person or persons requiring
such entry paying the usual and legal fees for the same. And
be it enacted, That a copy of such
record, duly attested under the seal of such office, shall at all times
hereafter be deemed, to all intents
and purposes, good evidence to prove such freedom."
The following resolution was propounded to the house.
RESOLVED, That the governor of this state be requested
to inform the executive of the commonwealth
of Virginia, that the important public business of this session of
the general assembly has unavoidably
induced a delay in the house of delegates in acting upon the amendments
proposed to be
made to the constitution of the United States by the legislature of
that commonwealth, and flatter
ourselves that they will be taken up in the house of delegates at the
next session of assembly, and
considered with the respect due to the communications of a sister state,
and with all the attention
due to subjects of such importance and magnitude.
Which was read the first and second time, and the
previous question called for and put, That the
said question be now put? Resolved in the affirmative.
The main question was then put, and the yeas and
nays being required, appeared as follow:
A F F I
R M A T
I V E.
Messieurs
Hall,
Emerson,
J. Thomas,
Sherwood, |
Johnson,
Hollingsworth,
Miller,
Wallace, |
Savin,
Bowie,
Duckett,
Baker, |
Nicholson,
Brown,
Butcher,
C. Frazier, |
Jarrett,
Prall,
Driver,
McKim, |
Douglass,
Clarke,
Beall,
Tomlinson. |
24.
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N E G A
T I V E.
Messieurs
Hopewell,
Neale,
Spencer,
Barroll,
Buchanan,
Ridout, |
J. C. Thomas,
Brome,
Sprigg,
Bourne,
Parnham,
Digges, |
Merryman,
Worthington,
Ridgely,
Jones,
Hyland,
Campbell, |
Calvert,
Quynn,
Key,
Robins,
Wilson,
Brother, |
Quynn, jun.
Sriver,
Montgomery,
McComas,
Young,
Cellar, |
Bowles,
McClain,
Reintzel,
Swearingen,
J. C. Beatty.
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So it was determined in the negative.
The house adjourns till 5 o'clock.
P O S T
M E R I
D I E M.
The house met.
The clerk of the senate delivers the following message:
By the SENATE, December 28, 1796.
GENTLEMEN,
WE find it difficult, from the late stage of the
session, to finish the business now before us by the
time agreed on for rising; we have therefore determined not to act
upon any new business which you
may send up to us after twelve o'clock to-morrow.
By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
Which was read.
ORDERED, That Mr. Key, Mr. Duckett and Mr. Robins, be
a committee to prepare and answer
to the said message.
Mr. Brother, from the committee, brings in and delivers
to the speaker a bill, entitled, A supplement
to the act, entitled, An act for erecting a public school in Frederick
county; which was
read the first and second time by especial order and passed.
On motion, ORDERED, That the supplement to an act to
establish permanent salaries for the
chancellor and judges have a second reading on to-morrow.
Mr. Robins, from the committee, brings in and delivers
to the speaker the following report:
THE committee to whom was referred the memorial of the
visitors and governors of Saint-John's
college report, that they have taken the same under consideration, and
find, from the account exhibited
to them under the hand of the treasurer of the said institution, that from
the tenth of November,
seventeen hundred and ninety-five, to the tenth of November, seventeen
hundred and
ninety-six, the following payments have been made for the use of
the said college; that is to say, viz.
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