Louise Boutté, a free woman of color, represents to the police jury that she owns her three children, Charlotte Chalamberg, Guillaume Chalamberg, and Auguste, and wishes to emancipate them before she dies. Louise explains that her children, who have contributed to the price of their own purchase, have always “rendered great services” to all who have owned them, including herself. She is now “very old” and is afraid to die without having given them freedom. She therefore asks the police jury to allow her children’s emancipation, and to permit them to remain in the state where they can “support and maintain” her in her old age.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Iberville Parish Courthouse, Plaquemine, Louisiana
