Marriage between a white person and a person of color shall be void; and every person authorized to solemnize the rites of matrimony who shall knowingly solemnize the same between such persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Persons of color shall be capable of bearing evidence in all controversies in law and in equity, where the rights of persons or property of persons of color shall be put in issue, and also in pleas of the State, there the violence, fraud, or injury alleged shall be charged to have been done by or to persons of color. In all other civil and criminal cases such evidence shall be deemed inadmissable, unless by consent of the parties of record.

It shall be the duty of the several courts of pleas and quarter sessions to bind out, as apprentices, all children of free negroes where the parents with whom such children may live do not habitually employ their time in some honest, industrious occupation.

Source: “Laws in Relation to Freedmen,” 39 Cong., 2 Sess., Senate Exec. Doc. 6, Freedman’s Affairs, 197-202.