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An Act to provide for the payment of Slaves executed in pursuance of law. 1824 41 (1824)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0061 and id is 1 raw text is: 41 IB24. !esentatives for ex-officio services in arranging the public & papers and preparing the journal for the press. Sec. 4. And be it futher enacted, That the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated as compensation sec'y state. to the secretary of state, for copying the laws of the prieseirt session of the General Assembly, and preparing them for the press. Sec. 5. And be itfiurther enacted, That the sum of two hundred dollars be allowed the comptroller of public ac- comptror counts, for clerk hire for the preser year. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten Continrent thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby set apart as a Fund. contingent fund, subject to the Governor's draft. Sec. 7. And be it furtier enacted, That the sum of two state Prin. .thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for ter. the state printer. [Approved, Decembcr 25, 1824.3 AN ACT To provide for the payment of Slaves executed in pusuance of law. Section 1. Be it enacted byl the Scnate and louse ofRaprcseen, fatives of the state nf' Alabaanr in General Asacmibl*y convened, That all slaves which may be hereafter executed in pur- suance of law, shall be paid for in the manner hereinafter prov ided. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That whenever on the trial of any slave for a capital offence, the jury shall return a verdict of guilty, the presiding judge, shall have the same y to see 1)lue jury sworn to assess the value of svid slave, and the verdict of slave of said jury, shall be entered on the records of the court, and the master or owner of such slave producing to the comptroller of public accounts, a transcript from the record of the court, regularly certified by the clerk, and' the certi- ficate of the sheriff, that any slave has been executed,in One half of pursuance of the sentence of the court, shall be entitled t6 said amount receive a warrant on the treasurer for one half of the amount to o paid assessed by the jury, to be paid out of the fund hereinafter provided for that purpose. Sec. 3. And be it fitrther enacted, That to raise a fund for the purpose aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the assess. ors annually to assess a tax % one cent on all negroes un- der ten years, and two cents on all negroes over ten and Taxonne. under sixty ; and it shall be the duty of the tax collec- groes to tors to collect and return the same at the same time, and in raise a fund, the same manner they are now compelled by law to collect and return the state tax; and it shall be the duty of the treasurer to keep said fund separAte and distinct from the revenue of the state. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if the owner ofownrshall any slave charged with a capital offence, shall fail to em- employ ploy good and sufficient counsel, on behalf of said slave, it counsel. shall be the duty of the presiding judge before whom' such slave may be tried, to assign counsel learned in the law to F

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