Thirty-nine Houston residents request that Henry Tucker, a free person of color, be exempted from the recently enacted law requiring all free people of color to leave the Republic by 1 January 1842. They state that Tucker, a barber, practices "habits of Sobriety, Industry, and Honesty" and displays "uniformily correct deportment." While heartily in agreement with the law compelling free persons of color "to leave the Republic by the first day of January 1842," they nonetheless "feel satisfied that no injury can result from his example or conversation to the Slaves with whom he may associate" and that "this community is really benefited by his labour."
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