Chapter CCLVIII. authorizing Edmund Brooke to remove to the District of Columbia, two slaves, owned by him prior to his removal from Virginia
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Chap. CCLVIII.— An Act authorizing Edmund Brooke to remove to the District of Columbia, two slaves, owned by him prior to his removal from Virginia.June 30, 1834. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That Edmund Brooke, of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, be authorized, and permission is hereby granted Allowed to remove slaves into the District of Columbia. him, to bring from the state of Virginia, into the said District of Columbia, two negro slaves, namely, John and Alfred, the property of the said Brooke; and to have and to exercise the same rights of property, and of ownership, over the said slaves, as if they had been brought by the said Brooke into the said District at the time of his removal to the said District of Columbia, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved, June 30, 1834.