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This act not to extend to free negroes or mulattoes, who, from old age

or infirmity, are unable to support themselves by labour — 1825)

ch. 161, sec. 3,* ..........

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Levy courts to make such provisions as may be necessary for such old

and infirm negroes, &c. — 1825, ch. 161, sec. 4,

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Not lawful for persons to purchase from any free negro or mulatto any

quantity of tobacco, under a penalty of $100, for every offence, to

be recovered by indictment in the county court, unless such negro.

&.c. shall produce a certificate from a justice of the peace certifying

the quantity, &c. — 1825, ch. 199, sec. 1, . . . . .

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May be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary — 1826, ch. 229,

sec. 8, ...........

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After the expiration of the term of any of them, or pardon, the direc-

tors to pay him or her not exceeding thirty dollars, and he or she

shall be banished the state, and if found in the state after sixty-

days, to be apprehended and sold as a slave, for the term of his or

her original conviction, &c. — 1826, ch. 229, sec. 9,

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The 2d section of the act of 1828, ch. 98, which provides that when a

negro or mulatto shall be committed to jail, under the acts relative

to the apprehension of runaways, the expenses of such commit-

ment to be certified to the treasurer, and paid by him, repealed —

1831, ch. 185, ..........

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Governor to appoint a board of managers, to remove from this state

the people of colour now free, or such as shall become so hereaf-

ter, to Liberia, or such other place out of the state as they may ap-

prove, and the persons to be removed shall consent to — 1831,

ch. 281, sec. 1, . . .

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Managers to give bond, &c. — 1831, ch. 281, sec. 1,

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Treasurer of the western shore to pay to the board of managers from

time to time as may be required, a sum not exceeding $20,000,

&c.— 1831, ch. 281, sec. 2, .......

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Clerks of courts and registers of wills to furnish the board of mana-

gers with copies of deeds of manumission when left for record,

penalty of $10 for every omission. Board of managers to notify

colonization society of such manumission, and to propose removal

to Liberia—1831, ch. 281, sec. 3, ......

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If the society agree to remove, the managers to deliver such persons to

the agent of the society — 1831, ch. 281, sec. 3, ....

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If the society refuse to receive or the persons refuse to be removed,

managers to select some other place — 1831, ch. 281, sec. 3, .

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In case of refusal to be removed beyond the limits of the state, mana-

gers to notify the sheriff, who shall arrest such person, &c. and

transport the same beyond the limits of the state — 1831, ch. 281,

sec. 3, ...........

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All slaves declared capable of receiving manumission for the purpose

of removal with consent — 1831, ch. 281, sec. 3, ...

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*See 1839, ch. 366, p. 2340 ; ch. 320, p. 2343, introducing many principles of

policy conflicting with the preceding abstracts.