Mecklenburg County, NC - Jerry Bethel - Act to Emancipate, 1855

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An Act to emancipate Jerry, 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 Jerry, a slave, the property of H.B. Williams and S.A. Davis,
of Mecklenburg county, be, and he is hereby, with the consent and
at the request of the said owners, emancipated and set free, and
by the name of Jerry Bethel, shall hereafter possess and exercise
all the rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other free persons
of color in this State: Provided, neverthless, That before the said 
slave is emancipated, the said Williams and Davis or either of them,
shall give bond and approved security, payable to the Governor and
his successors in office, in the county court of Mecklenburg county,
in the sum of one thousand dollars, that the said Jerry shall honestly
and correctly demean himself as long as he shall remain in the State, 
and shall not become a county charge; which bond may be sued upon in
the name of the governor for the time being, to the use of said county
and of any person injured by the misconduct of the said slave hereby
emancipated.

[Ratified the 8th day of January, 1855]


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1854-55
Chapter 109
Page 89-90

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