Wake County, NC - John Malone - Act to Emancipate Wife & Son, 1847

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An Act authorizing John Malone, a free man of color, to emancipate
his wife and son, upon certain conditions herein mentioned

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 John Malone, 
a free man of color, in the county of Wake, be, and he is hereby
authorized to emancipate from slavery, Cherry, his wife, and Edmond,
his son, who are the slaves of the said John Malone; and that the said
Cherry, by the name of Cherry Malone; and the said Edmond, by the name
of Edmond Malone, shall thence-forth be free and have and enjoy the
same rights and privileges as if they had been born free in this State,
and may at their pleasure continue to reside in North Carolina; any
law to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided, That the said Edmond
Malone shall be, after his emancipation, considered in law the
legitimate son and heir of said John Malone, and capable in law to
succeed as such to the property, real and personal, whereof the said 
John Malone may die siezed and possessed, without devising it, or
otherwise conveying it to others, in all respects, as though the said
Edmond had been born in lawful wedlock of the body of the lawful wife
of the said John Malone; and provided further, That the said John
Malone shall in due form of law intermarry with said Cherry Malone,
and make her his lawful wife, on the same day that she shall be
emancipated by him from slavery.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That before the said John Malone shall
emancipate the said slaves Cherry and Edmond, and as a precedent 
condition to give the said act of emancipation effect in this State,
the said John Malone shall give a bond, in the penal sum of five
hundred dollars, payable to the State of North Carolina, and conditioned
that the said slaves, Cherry and Edmond, shall each be of good behaviour
during his or her residence in the State, and that neither of them shall,
after their emancipation, become chargable to the county or any parish
or county in North Carolina; and further conditioned, that the said John
Malone will renew the said bond, with approved security when it shall
at any time be required by the county court of Wake; and the clerk of
the county court of Wake, under the written approbation of any two 
justices of the peace or the county court of Wake, may take the first
bond, and the said John Malone shall give one or more good and approved
sureties to the said bond, as well the one executed at first, as any
other given in renewal thereof.

[Ratified 2nd of January, 1847]


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1846-47
Chapter CLXII
Page 297-298

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