Cumberland County, NC - Betty Barbee - Act to Emancipate, 1855

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An Act to emancipate Betty, a slave

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,
That Betty, a slave, the property of Joshua Carman, of Cumberland
county, be, and she is hereby emancipated and set free by the consent
and at the request of her master, and by the name of Betty Barbee,
shall possess and exercise all the rights and privileges of other
free persons of color in this State: Provided, nevertheless, that
before this act of emancipation shall take effect, the owner of said
slave Betty, or some person for him, shall file in the clerk's office
of the court of pleas and quarter sessions of Cumberland county, a
bond with good security, in the sum of five hundred dollars, payable
to the Governor of the State and his successors in office, that the
said Betty shall demean herself correctly while she remains in the
State and not become a county charge, which bond may be put in suit
in the name of the Governor for the time being, to the use of the
county or person injured by a breach of its condition: Provided, that 
she do not reside out of the county aforesaid, more than thirty days 
at any time; also that she give bond in such an amount as will be 
approved of by the county court, that she will not become a public 
charge.

[Ratified the 14th day of February, 1855]


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1854-55
Chapter 108
Page 89

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