Wake County, NC - Sidney, Samuel, Mary & Fadius Gay - Act to Legitimate

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An Act to alter the names of Sidney S. Gay, Samuel C. Gay, Mary G.
Gay, Fadius H. Gay, Wake county, and to legitimate them

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 Sidney S.
Gay, Samuel C. Gay, Mary G. Gay and Fadius H. Gay, the illegitimate
children of Burwell Perry, shall hereafter be known and distinguished 
by the name of Sidney S. Perry, Samuel C. Perry, Mary G. Perry, Fadius 
H. Perry; and that name shall be made capable to sue and be sued, plead 
and be impleaded within any court within this State; and by that name 
shall be legitimated and made capable to take, possess and enjoy and 
inherit any estate, either real or personal, which may be devised or 
descend to them, in as full and ample a manner, to all intents and 
purposes, as it the said Sidney, Samuel, Mary and Fadius had been born 
in lawful wedlock; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1829-30
Chapter CVII
Page 64

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