Northampton County, NC - Court - Joshua & Polly Small, Et Al, 1857

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1856-57 NC General Assembly; Private Acts;

Chapter 142.
 
An Act To Authorize Joshua Small and His Wife Polly, Robert and Elizabeth 
Small, Anthony Copeland and Warren Boon to Reside in the County of Northampton 
for the space of eighteen months.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State months. of North-
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Joshua 
Small and his wife Polly, Robert and Elizabeth Small, Anthony Copeland, and 
Warren Boon be, and they are hereby authorized to remain in the county of 
Northampton for the space of eighteen months, and enjoy all the rights and 
immunities that other free persons of color now enjoy under the constitution 
and laws of this State.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That if the said free persons of color do not 
remove from the State within the above named time, then they shall become 
subject to all the laws relative to the emancipation of free persons of color 
into this State.[?]

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after 
its ratification. [Ratified the 2d day of February, A. D., 1857.]