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ges of interest due at eight percent which was also
according to agreement, and including interest at eight
percent in all the notes there given; to which
adding the various amounts above specified
as due Respdt on the 23d of March 1843, the date
of the Bills of Sale, it will be found that errors in
calculation Excepted Respondt. paid for the negroes
in the first Bills of Sale given on the 23d March 1843
the sum of six thousand and thirty dollars or therea-
bout; which sum, errors of calculation excepted, Re-
spondt claims was lawfully due him from Complt
at the date of the said Bills of Sale. Respdt has in
his first answer fully explained the transaction
concerning the negro boy York, & fully desired that
the notes for the hire were really given for usuri-
ous interest. Respondent has also averred tha tthe said
Bills of Sale were given in payment and not as
mortgages and reavers the same; but Respdt here
adds that even if the said Bills were designed as mort-
gages and the usurious interest were still an outstand-
ing debt that Respdt as he is advised, would still be en-
titled to recover it, because by an Act of the Legisla-
ture of Alabama, entitled an act to raise a Rev-
enue for the support of the State Government,
and to maintain the faith and credit of the State of
Alabama," Approved January 15th 1844 it is enact-
ed that upon all moneys used or laid out in what
is usually termed shaving or loaned at illegal
rate of interest or used in the purchase of promis-
sory notes, judgments or other securities for the
payment of money, fifty cents upon every hun-
dred dollars' amount of paper, notes or other

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