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TX-1838.11 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
Descriptors: Aransas, TX Republic; Courts;
Galveston, TX Republic; Harboring of slaves;
Houston, TX Republic; Incorporation of cities
and towns; Jasper County, TX Republic;
Matagorda, TX Republic; Milam, TX Republic;
Negroes; Patrols; Runaways; Sabine County, TX
Republic; San Augustine, TX Republic; Searches
and seizures; Street repair; Taxation; Zavala, TX
Republic
TX-1839
Contains:
• An Act to adopt the Common Law of
England, to repeal certain Mexican Laws,
and to regulate the Marital Rights of parties.
(PP- 3-6]
• An Act to raise a Public Revenue by Direct
Taxation, [pp. 9, 11, 13, 16, 28]
• An Act to prevent Frauds and Fraudulent
Conveyances, [pp. 28-29]
• An Act concerning Executions, [pp. 93, 96,
98]
• An Act regulating the duties of Probate
Courts, and the settlement of Succession,
[pp. 110, 119, 127, 132]
• An Act concerning Free Persons of Color,
[pp. 151-153]
• An Act concerning Conveyances, [pp.
153-154, 158]
• An Act concerning Slaves, [pp. 171-172]
• An Act making appropriations for the
support of Government for the year 1840.
[pp. 207, 209-212]
• An Act to incorporate the town of Texana.
[pp. 224-227]
• An Act to incorporate the town of
Beaumont, [pp. 239-240, 242]
Descriptors: Appropriations; Arrest; Beaumont,
TX Republic; Boats and ships; Courts; Cruelty to
slaves; Deeds and conveyances; Firearms; Free
persons of color; Guardians; Immigration;
Incorporation of cities and towns; Inheritance;
Liquor laws; Marriage; Murder; Patrols; Personal
debt; Sales of slaves; Servants; Street repair;
Taxation; Texana, TX Republic; Trading with
slaves
310 State Slavery Statutes
TX-1840
Contains:
• An Act concerning certain Free Persons of
Color, [pp. 4-5]
• An Act concerning Divorce and Alimony,
[pp. 19, 21-22]
• An Act prohibiting forced Sale of Slaves
under Execution, [p. 51]
• An Act supplementary and amendatory of
certain Acts therein named, [pp. 68-69]
• An Act for the Relief of certain Free
persons of Color, [pp. 85-86]
• An Act for the Relief of Certain Free
Persons of Color, [p. 184]
• An Act regulating the Sale of Runaway
Slaves, [pp. 185-186]
Descriptors: Courts; Divorce; Harboring of
slaves; Hiring of slaves; Imprisonment; Runa-
ways; Sales of slaves; Ainsworth, Aaron (or
Ashworth, free person of color); Ainsworth,
Abner (or Ashworth, free person of color);
Ainsworth, David (or Ashworth, free person of
color); Ainsworth, William (or Ashworth, free
person of color); McCulloch, Harriet (free
person of color); McCulloch, Jane (free person of
color); McCulloch, Mahaly (free person of
color); McCulloch, Samuel, Jr. (free person of
color); McCulloch, Samuel, Sr. (free person of
color); Thomas, Elisha (free person of color);
Ulde (or Huldir, free person of color)
TX-1841
Contains:
• An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act
prohibiting Forced Sale of Slaves." [p. 25]
• An Act to reduce into one, and amend the
several Acts, concerning Executions, [pp.
66-67, 71]
• An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act
to raise a Revenue by Direct Taxation,"
approved January sixteenth, one thousand
eight hundred and forty, [pp. 106-107]
Descriptors: Courts; Sales of slaves; Taxation
TX-1842.11