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pated, shall not be sent to Liberia before the expiration of a year, dat-
ing from his emancipation, or if he return after having been transported,
the said slave or slaves shall have forfeited their liberty, and shall again
become slaves to their ci-devant masters or their legal representatives.
Sec. 3.    This act shall not be put in force until six months after its
Art. 185. No one can emancipate his slave unless the slave has
attained the age Of thirty years, and has behaved well at least for four
years preceding his emancipation.
Act of March 9, 1807, p. 82. — Sec. 1. No one shall be forcod,
either directly or indirectly, to emancipate his slave or slaves, except
only when the said emancipation shall be made in the name and at the
expense of the Territory, in virtue of an act of the legislature of the
said Territory.
Sec 2. No master can emancipate any of his slaves unless the said
slave has attained the age of thirty years, and has behaved well, and
has never been guilty of running away, stealing, or any criminal mis-
demeanor during the four years preceding the day of his emancipa-
tion ; provided that the present disposition shall be of no effect in case
the slave or slaves set at liberty shall have saved the life of his master,
or of his wife, or of any of his children.
Sec. 8. Every master who may wish to emancipate any of his
slaves, shall be bound to declare before the judge of his county that
the slave to be emancipated is of the age and has led the conduct re-
quired above by Section 2, for his emancipation. The judge shall
immediately order the following notice in the English and French lan-
guages to be placarded in his county : —
" The said A. N. (inhabitant or domiciliary) of the County of------
desiring to manumit his slave (male or female) named---------, aged
------, all persons who may have legal objections to make to the said
manumission  are warned to present them at the court of the said
county within forty days from the date of the present declaration.
" Signed,                                      M. R,
« Sheriff of the County of------."
At the expiration of this delay, if there are no objections, or if the
judge decides that those which may have been made are not well
founded, the said judge shall then authorize the petitioner, by a sen-
tence, to pass the act of emancipation ; which emancipation shall have