Jean Dayson asks the court to submit to the police jury his petition to emancipate his two-year-old slave, a "quatroon" girl named Elilia. He represents that one month prior to this petition, he sold Elilia, together with her mother Pressy and her sibling Azoline, to one Jean Lefebvre. Immediately after the sale, he realized that he had made a mistake, and that he and his family could not part with Elilia by reason of their attachment to her. He therefore asked Lefebvre to "recess," i.e., to sell Elilia back to him. Lefebvre agreed but with the express condition that Dayson would emancipate Elilia "in the shortest possible delay" and that he, his heirs, and his trustees would be bound to raise her, protect her, and "provide for all her wants" until the full age of sixteen, conditions to which Dayson had readily agreed [Original in French and English].
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
