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le® 18GG.—CiiAPTKR 40.
I» suits at '''6 entitled to. all the privileges of whik^ persons in tlie
ifrmlefferen- 1""'^^<^ ^j'' prosecuting, defending, continuing, removing Eind
titled. transferring their suits at law ndineip.iity; and, likewise,
to the same mode of trial by jury, and hU the privileges
appertaining theieto. And in all proceediogs in equity
by or against them, their answer shall have the same force
_ and effect in all respects as the answer of white persons.
iMty of iiiJ??*#fci|i'^'' 4- ^^ ^'^ farther enacted^ Thit in all cases of appren-aTOTeutfiS'*'*^
^''-'^•'^'^^P of persons of color, under chapter five of the
Revised Code, the master sViall be bouad to discbarge the
same duties to them as to 'wliitc ajiprenticcs, and^ie
woi'ds. "as arewliire" in section three, Hue tliree, are
liereby repealed, and the v.'ord "apprentice" shail be
read after the word "such." in said line, and the words
"if a white person" in the second line of section six are
Provi.so. hereby repealed. ; Provided^ alwa>js, That in the binding
out of apprentices of color, the former master of such
apprentices, when they shall be regarded as suitable per-sons
by the court, shall be entitled to have such a[»prcn-tices
bound to them in preference to other persons.
,^ . ^ Sec. 5. Be it farther enacted, That in all cases where
Marriage of ^ '
^
former slaves, men and women, both or one of whom were lately .slaves
legitioiized. , . i i • x i
"^ • i and are now emancipated, now cohabit together m the
relation of husband and wife, the parties shall be deemed
to have been lawfully married as man and v.'ife at the
time of the commencement of such cohabitation, although
Ooiiabitatioii thc}' may not ])ave been married in due form of law. And
ed"-ed^'Vjet"ore ^^^ persons whose coliabitation is herelty ratified into a
eierks^rm"'^'^
^'•'''^^ '''^ maiTiage, shall go before the clerk of the court
iati-atesi. of pleas and quarter sessions of the county in vrhich the^
reside, at his office, or before some justice of the -peace,
and acknowledge the fact of such cohabitation, and the
time of its commencement; and the clerk shall enter the
same in a book kept for that purpose ; and if the acknowl-edguunt
be made before a justice of the peace, such
justice shall report the same in writing to the clerk of tke
court of please and quarter sessions, and the clerk shall
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