Halifax County, NC - Mary Anne Martha Wallace - Act to Legitimate

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An Act to legitimate and alter the name of Mary Anne Martha Wallace,
of Halifax county

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 the name
of Mary Anne Martha Wallace, daughter of Sarah Wallace and Thomas
Bustin, of the county of Halifax, shall be, and the same is hereby
altered to that of Mary Anne Martha Bustin; and by that name she is
hereby legitimated and entitled to inherit from her said father, 
Thomas Bustin, by descent and distribution, as fully and effectually 
as if she had been born in wedlock; any thing in any law to the contrary 
notwithstanding.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1830-32
Chapter CXXXVIII
Page 172-173

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