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Contains:
17• An Act, to amend an act entitled "An act
to establish a Court of Probate for the
granting letters testamentary; of administra-
tion and guardianship; for country police,
and for the trial of slaves•Passed January
23d, 1824."
22• An Act to emancipate David Gant, a
person of color, [p. 30]
39• An Act to revive an act entitled "An act
to reduce into one the several acts
concerning patrols." [pp. 43-44]
50• An Act to incorporate the town of
Fayette, in the County of Jefferson, and for
other purposes, [pp. 52-58]
59• An Act to incorporate the town of
Meadville, in the county of Franklin, [pp.
71-73]
60• An Act to emancipate certain slaves
therein named, [pp. 74-75]
107• An Act to amend an act entitled an act
to establish a Court of Probate for the
granting of letters testamentary of adminis-
tration and guardianship, for county police,
and for the trial of slaves, [p. 180]
119• A Resolution concurring with the States
of South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia, in
the opinion expressed by them on the
subject of the Tariff, Colonization Society
and Internal Improvement, [pp. 194-195]
Descriptors: Adams County, MS; Colonization
Society; Courts; Elections; Emancipation;
Fayette, MS; Free white males; Georgia;
Incorporation of cities and towns; Jefferson
County, MS; Meadville, MS; Militia; Monroe
County, MS; Patrols; South Carolina; Street
repair; Taxation; Trials; Virginia; Warren Coun-
ty, MS; Boardman, Robert; Bolls, Elizabeth;
Covington, Leonard; Edward (alias Ned, slave);
Emily (slave); Ferguson, Thomas Jefferson;'
Frances (alias Franky, slave); Gant, David
(person of color); Higdon, Limerick; Holmes,
Thomas C; Jane (slave); Jim (slave); Orville
(slave); Reuben (slave); St. Clair, Jasper; Sucky
(alias Susan, slave); Workman, Benjamin (mulat-
to boy); Franklin County, MS
MS-1830.11
MS-1831
Contains:
29• An Act to authorize the laying out and
making a road from Martin's Bluff, on the
Tombeckbee river, in the county of Monroe,
across parts of the Chickasaw and Choctaw
nations, to the Northern or Northeastern
boundary of the county of Madison, in the
nearest and best direction to Clinton, in
Hinds county; and for other purposes, [pp.
31-33]
38• An Act to amend the several acts relative
to the Public Revenue, [pp. 39-41]
51• An Act to authorize executors, adminis-
trators and guardians to purchase real estate,
and for other purposes, [pp. 56-57]
68• An Act to prevent the circulation of
seditious pamphlets, papers and magazines
in this state, and for other purposes, [pp.
86-88]
78• An Act to incorporate the town of
Athens, in Monroe County, [pp. 102-105]
81• An Act to authorize the Board of Road
Commissioners for Monroe county to order
the laying out and opening of certain roads
therein named, and for other purposes, [pp.
110-112]
86• An Act further to amend the acts
concerning the jurisdiction and powers of
Justices of the Peace in this State, and for
other purposes, [pp. 117-125]
Descriptors: Apprentices; Athens, MS; Books
and stationery; Capital punishment; Courts; Free
Negroes; Free persons of color; Highways and
roads; Incorporation of cities and towns;
Inheritance; Insurrection; Liquor laws; Madison
County, MS; Monroe County, MS; Negroes;
Patrols; Personal debt; Sedition; Servants;
Taxation; Whipping
MS-1831
Contains:
5• An Act to amend an act entitled an act to
reduce into one the several acts concerning
slaves, free negroes and mulattoes • passed
June 18th, 1822. [pp. 10-14]
7•' An Act the better to provide for the
payment of expenses incurred in the
prosecution of slaves, for offences against
the laws of this State, [pp. 15-16]
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