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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · Feb. 6, 1879 · Chapter 49

Chapter 49.

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CHAP. 49.— An act declaratory of the law relating to descents and inheritance in the District of Columbia in certain cases. Feb. 6, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Law of inheritance and descent as to colored persons. That the issue of any marriage of colored persons, contracted and entered into according to any custom prevailing at the time in any of the States wherein the same occurred, shall, for all purposes of descent and inheritance and the transmission of both real and personal property within the District of Columbia, be deemed and held to be legitimate, and capable of inheriting and transmitting inheritance, and taking as next of kin and distributee according to law, from and to their parents, or either of them, and from and to FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS Sess.
III. Ch. 49 50, 65. 1879 283 those from whom such parents, or either of them, may inherit or transmit inheritance, anything in the laws of such State to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall be construed as*Proviso*. implying that any such marriage is not valid, or such issue legitimate for all other purposes. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 6, 1879.
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