Hyde County, NC - John Blackwell - Act for Relief

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An Act for the relief of John Blackwell and his wife, of the county
of Hyde

Whereas, it appears that before the passing of the act of the General
Assembly of one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "an act
concerning the marriage of infant females," a contract of marriage
existed between John Blackwell and Ann Selby, which was celebrated so 
soon after the passage of said act, that the existence of the same was 
not known to the said Blackwell, whereby the penalties of said act have 
been incurred without the wilful design of said Blackwell;

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 said John
Blackwell be, and is hereby exempted from the operations of said act;
and the property to which the said Ann Selby was entitled, at her 
marriage with said Blackwell, is hereby vested in the said Blackwell,
as fully as the same would have been vested by said marriage, had the
before recited act never been passed.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1819-22
Chapter CXXV
Page 73

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