[23]. Annotated Stat, 1906, II, sec. 2174.

[24]. Laws of S. C, 1864–65, p. 271.

[25]. Compiled Stat., 1895, sec. 3644.

[26]. Bellinger and Cotton’s Code and Stat., II, sec. 5217.

[27]. Laws of Va., 1865–66, p. 84.

[28]. McPherson’s Case, 1877, 28 Grat. 939.

[29]. People v. Dean, 1866, 14 Mich. 406.

[30]. Walker v. Brockway, 1869, I Mich. N. P. (Brown) 57.

[31]. Monroe v. Collins, 1867, 17 O. S. 665.

[32]. A mestizo is a person of mixed blood, specially a person of mixed Spanish and American Indian parentage.—Century Dictionary, V, p. 3728.