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An Act to provide for the more speedy Trial of Slaves and Free Persons of Color. 1831 10 (1831)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0156 and id is 1 raw text is: 1882 * 10 per day, for each day they may be employed in the discharge of their duties' under this act; and the clerk of the county court shall be allowed the sum of two dollars for filing each claim and recording thejudgenent ofthe court thereon; all of which expen- ses shall be paid out of said fund, and the said county treasurer shall be allowed the usual per centage for paying and receiving the said money. When ard how Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the said commis- uporci s sioners are hereby authorized to issue to the purchaser or percha- er. sers of any part of said lands, a certificate of purchase of the said land, or any portion thereof, which, when returned to the Secre- tary of State's office, with a receipt or receipts from the county treasurer, countersigned by the judge of the county court of said county, showing the full payment of the same, shall entitle the said purchaser or his assignee to a patent to said lot or portion of land, and the Governor of the State is hereby required to cause the same to issue. laid landi to ho Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, To enable the said com- missioners to carry into effect the provisions of this act more be- neficially, they are hereby authorized to cause the said lands cast of the Alabama, and the said land lying in the fork of the Alaba- ma and Cahawba rivers, to be surveyed and laid off in lots or parcels as to them may seem best. Approved, January 21, 1832. AN ACT To provide for the more speedy I tial of shaires and Free Persnns of Color. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- tatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, 'dgofffthd' $That from and after the passage of this act, the jutdgre of the coun- eattst r y n r- io ti.p ss trat otyer- ty court of each and every county in this State, together with two justices of the peace to he associated with him, or in case there should be no julge of the counlty court, then any three jus- tices of the peace, shall constitute a court for the trial of all slaves and free persons of color, charged with any crime or misdemea- nor of a higher grade than petit larceny. The monde o See. 2. And be it furither enacted, That whenever any slave or or free person of color, shall be brought before any justice of t e peace, charged with the commission of any crime or misdemeanor of a higher grade than petit larceny, if the justice, after exmnin- ing the witnesses on the part of the prosecutor, shiafl believe there exists any reasonable or probable grounds of the guilt lr crimi- nality of such slave or free person of color, he shall immediately -commit him or her to jail, and shall at the same time issue a notice to the judge of the county court of his county, and also to some justice of the peace, which notice shall be served by the sheriff or some constable of the county,informing them o such -commitment, and state the time and place of trial, which shall not be less than ten nor more than fifteen days from the date of said notice; and the said justice who shall make the commitment as aforesaid, aid the judge of the county court, or if there be no judge of the county courti two justices of the peace, summoned

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