Louisiana resident Henry Michel Thibodaux seeks to bring thirty-five slaves and five free persons of color into Texas. He explains that his wife, "on her dying bed," requested that he emancipate his slave Marguerite and her two children, along with two other slave children. He further recounts that "the said emancipated servants have remained in his family, and serve him and he wishes to take them with him to Texas." Thibodaux states, however, that he "is informed that the introduction of free colored people is contrary to the laws of Texas." He therefore "respectfully prays that an Act of the Legislature may be passed, permitting him to take his said five emancipated servants to the State of Texas, and allowing them to remain in the State."
Result: Read, referred to committee on state affairs.
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Repository: Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas
