Thank you very much for the wonderful information! Annie 

> On Jun 1, 2022, at 6:09 AM, sharpe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> In the VA-ROOTS thread "Exodus of Free Blacks" it was asked whether readers
> could be referred to the original document.
> 
> This provides the opportunity to make both historians and genealogists
> aware of the availability of these documents online.
> 
> Due to a statute enacted two years ago by the General Assembly, any public
> record in existence before 1901 may be exhibited online without
> restriction.  Most of the images now available are digitized microfilm.
> 
> As a result of this act nearly all such records are now available by going
> to the FamilySearch.org website, choosing "catalog," and using the search
> box to choose the jurisdiction of the record being sought.  Within the
> jurisdiction there are categories and subcategories.  This may be done at
> home or anywhere, using only a free user name and password.
> 
> Here the order in question is in the Northumberland County Court Order Book
> for 1844-1852 at pages 364-365.  (This is DGS 8357562, and the pages are at
> frames 427-428.)
> 
> https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/401620?
> availability=Family%20History%20Library
> 
> “October 14, 1850”
> [p364] It appearing to this court by satisfactory evidence that there are a
> number of free negroes about to remove from this county out of the
> commonwealth of Va. at their own cost and whence by our [p365] making
> appropriations for the removal of free persons of color and for other
> purposes passed the 11th. March 1850 which among other things directs that
> it shall be the duty of the county and corporation courts to charge the
> legal tax for the seal of the court and attestation of every copy of
> registration by them to every free negro and to acco. [account] with the
> Auditor of Public Accounts for such tax &c.  and the object of such tax
> being to raise a fund for the removal of free negroes out of this
> Commonwealth, Therefore the court doth direct its Clerk: not to charge the
> tax aforesaid to any free negro who obtains his papers for the purpose of
> removing out of the Commonwealth at his or her own costs.
> 
> The excellent and substantial answers in the thread obviate the need for
> additional comment.
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