Public Acts Passed at the First Session of the Twentieth General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, 1833 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Public Acts Passed at the First Session of the Twentieth General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, 1833

Snc'rron 1. Be it enacted by the General fissembly of the That hereafter, no stage contractor or driver, or owner, or captain of any steam boat or other water craft, shall receive and carry from ahy place in this State, to any other place, either in or out of the State, any black or coloured person, unless said coloured person shall produce the certificate of the clerk of the court of the county from which, said stage or steam boat is about to depart; which certificate shall be under the seal of said court, stating that the said clerk has known said coloured person, and that he or she is free, or has generally been reputed to be free, or that it has been proved to him by respectable witnesses known to him, (whom he is hereby authorised to swear,) that said coloured person is free, or generally reputed so; or if said coloured person be actually a slave, then and in that case a verbal or written authority from the owner or owners, shall be sufficient.

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