Petition #20883128

Abstract

Constance des Capucins, a free woman of color and a woman of some means and property, presents to the police jury that she has recently purchased her two-year-old niece named Juliette, from a free woman of color named Bellefine Bardoule, under the condition "sine qua non" that she would immediately proceed to the formalities required by law for emancipation. She explains that she is "possessed of some property" and intends not only to emancipate Juliette but to use her respectable means to educate her. She asks the police jury to authorize her to proceed with the manumission of her niece.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

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