An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored PersonsPosted in Articles, Law, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, United States on 2014-04-06 17:32Z by Steven |
An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons
Chronicles of Oklahoma
Volume 6, No. 2 (June, 1928)
Interesting Ante-bellum Laws of the Cherokees, Now Oklahoma History
page 179
James W. Duncan
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Be it enacted by the National Council, that intermarriage shall not be lawful between a free male or female citizen with any person of color, and the same is hereby prohibited, under the penalty of such corporal punishment as the courts may deem it necessary and proper to inflict, and which shall not exceed fifty stripes for every such offense.
Tahlequah, September 19, 1839.
John Ross, Principal Chief
Approved.