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An Act to emancipate Isabella, a person of color. 1819 27 (1819)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0039 and id is 1 raw text is: 27 exceeding ten thousand dollars for the use and be- nefit of said institution, of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, and of doing and performing all other acts and exercising all other powers incident to bodies corporate. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid varon trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, how I. shall have power to fill all vacancies in their body, occasioned by death, resignation, removal or refii- sal to act; to elect a president and secretary either in or out of their body, as to them shall seem most expedient. Sec. 3. ./Jnd be stfirther enacted, That the president men or any two of the members may call a meeting of the in trustees whenever it may be deemed expedient; and any member reflusing to attend after due notice gil- en three successive times, shall be deemed to have resigned. E. TURNER, Speaker oj tite House of Re presentltiony. D. STEWA tT, Lieut. Governor and Pre;ident of/he Senate. Approved, the th day of February, 1; 9. DAVID HOLMES. Governor o' the State of Aliissipn. AN ACT To cmancipafe Isabella, a person of color. Whereas it has been represented to the Generm Assembly by the petition of John Baptiste Nicaisse. that he is desirous of emancipating the mulatto girl named Isabella, who is his slave, for certain causes and considerations stated in his petition. and which appears reasonabl-: threfore