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color); Barland, George (person of color);
Barland, James (person of color); Barland, John
(person of color); Barland, Margaret (alias
Margaret Henderson, person of color); Barland,
Susanna (person of color); Barland, William;
Barland, William, Jr.; Claibome, Frederick L.;
Elizabeth (person of color); Steele, John
MS-1815
Contains:
• An Act concerning Slaves brought into this
Territory contrary to the laws of the United
States, [pp. 19-20]
• An Act directing the taking of the Census
of the Mississippi Territory, [pp. 32-33, 35]
• An Act to amend the act, entitled "An act
to prevent the liberation of slaves only in
cases hereafter named, and for other
purposes." [pp. 46-47]
• An Act to raise a Revenue, [pp. 86-89, 105]
Descriptors: Census; Courts; Emancipation; Free
persons of color; Importation of slaves; Sales of
slaves; Taxation
MS-1816
Contains:
• An Act to amend an act entitled an act to
regulate taverns and restrain tippling
houses, [pp. 14-15]
• An Act to manumit Belisle and Bess, late
the property of A. Green, deceased, [pp.
31-32]
• An Act to emancipate certain persons of
color therein named, [pp. 33-34]
• An Act concerning stays on executions, and
regulating the fees of certain officers therein
named, [pp. 55-57]
Descriptors: Adams County, MS Territory;
Emancipation; Fees; Free Negroes; Liquor laws;
Whipping; Belisle (slave); Benjamin (slave); Bess
(slave); Green, Abner; Louisa (alias Lucy, slave);
Mary (slave); Mary Ann (slave); Minor, Stephen;
Rachel (slave); Sandy (slave); Vousden, Ben (free
person of color)
MS-1817
MS-1819
Contains:
• An Act establishing the Fees of certain
Officers therein named, [pp. 30, 34-35, 41]
• An Act concerning the Revenue, [pp.
53-54, 57]
• An Act to establish a County Court within
each County in this State, for Orphan
business, for County Police, for the Trial of
Slaves and for other purposes, [pp. 58-59,
68]
• An Act for the more healthy police of the
city of Natchez, and to provide against
infectious and pestilential diseases, [pp.
70-71, 74-77, 86]
• An Act to take the Census of the State of
Mississippi, [pp. 87-89]
• An Act to prevent Slaves from raising
Cotton for their own use or benefit, [pp.
168-169]
• An Act making Appropriations, and for
other purposes, [pp. 170, 173-175]
• An Act confirming the Emancipation of
Jerry, a Man of Colour, [p. 205]
• An Act supplemental to "An Act to erect
the Town of Natchez into a City, and to
incorporate the same." [pp. 219-224]
Descriptors: Adams County, MS; Apprentices;
Burials; Census; Cotton; Courts; Emancipation;
Fees; Free persons of color; Importation of
slaves; Incorporation of cities and towns; Liquor
laws; Natchez, MS; Persons of color; Runaways;
Servants; Taxation; Trials; Whipping; Jerry (man
of color); Osman, Benajah
MS-1819
Contains:
• An Act to raise a Revenue for the year one
thousand eight hundred and nineteen, [pp.
3-4]
• An Act to amend the act entitled, "An act
regulating the importation of Slaves, and for
other purposes." [pp. 4-8]
• An Act to emancipate Isabella, a person of
color, [pp. 27-28]
• An Act to amend the several laws now in
force, relative to Tavern Keepers, and
retailers of Spirituous Liquors, [pp. 66-67]
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