All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in
all the courts of law and equity of this State, and may acquire personal property, and chooses in action, y
descent or purchase, and may dispose of the same in the same manner and to the same extent that
white persons may: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not be so construed as to allow any
freedman, free negro or mulatto to rent or lease any lands or tenements except in incorporated cities or
towns, in which places the corporate authorities shall control the same... displayed 300 characters
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All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes may intermarry with each other, in the same
manner and under the same regulations that are provided by law for white persons: Provided, that the
clerk of probate shall keep separate records of the same.
Section3. All freedmen, free negroes or mullatoes who do now and have herebefore lived and cohabited
together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married, and the issue shall be
taken and held as legitimate for all purposes; and it shall not be lawful for any freedman, free negro or
mulatto to intermarry with any white person; nor for any person to intermarry with any freedman, free
negro or mulatto; and any person who shall so intermarry shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on
conviction thereof shall be confined in the State penitentiary for life; and those shall be deemed
freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes who are of pure negro blood, and those descended from a negro
to the third generation, inclusive, though one ancestor in each generation may have been a white person... displayed 300 characters
