| James Kent - 1866 - 954 páginas
...their own use, and not as merchandise. In Alabama, by statute, (Aik. Dig. 452,) all negroes, mnlattoes, Indians, and all persons of mixed blood, descended...may have been a white person, whether bond or free, are declared incapable in law to be witnesses in any case whatever, except for and against each other.... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1866 - 164 páginas
...Ireedmen, free negroes and mulattoes who are of pure negro biood, and those descended from a negro to the third generation, inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person. SEC. 4 provides that in audition to cases in which freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes are now by... | |
| Whitelaw Reid - 1866 - 624 páginas
...free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negrp ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person), shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons." The last clause would seem to have looked... | |
| New York (State) - 1867 - 254 páginas
...free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person), shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons. NC, 428. — Provided, That nothing herein... | |
| 1868 - 646 páginas
...free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person), shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons." SOUTH CAROLINA, By her now Constitution... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 542 páginas
...provides that " all negroes and Indians, and all persons of mixed blood descended from negro ancestry to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, shall be incapable of being a witness in any case whatever, except for or against each other." 4 SUMMARY... | |
| 1870 - 944 páginas
...and Indians, and all persons of mixed blood descended from negro ancestry, to the third generation, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person," ware declared incapable of being witnesses, " except for or against each other." The last act of legislation... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1871 - 670 páginas
...freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes who are of pure negro blood, and those descended from a negro havebeen a white person. SEC. 4 provides that in audition to cases in which freednien, free negroes... | |
| 1871 - 1022 páginas
...and Indians, and all persons of mixed blood descended from negro ancestry, to the third generation, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person," were declared incapable of being witnesses, "except for or against each other." The last act of legislation... | |
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