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AN ACT
To amend an act relting to Crimes and Misdemcanors.
Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council
, of the Territorgi of F'lorida, That if any person shall
buy, accept or receive from any slave, any moneygra Ill Tradilg with
or other produce or thing, o- shIll trado, in ay mi ner, laves ithout
with any slave, without a permit, in writing from the permit.
master, owner or overseer of such slave, muning the ar-
ticle or thing which such slave is permitted to sell, dis-
pose of or trade for ; every person so ofl'ending shall be
fined in the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered by
warrant, before any justice of the peace in this Territo-
ry, one half to the informant and the other half to be
paid into the Treasury of this Territory ; and for the
second offence, s1c10 person or persons so ofelnding shall
pay a fine of fifty dolars, to be recuveired in rna nnr as
aforesaid, or shall be punished by the iifliction of a num-
ber of stripes, not to exceed twenty, at the discretion
of tile justice of the peace.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of the
110th section of an act relating to crimes and misde- Repealing
nieaiois ; Approved the 22d November, 1828; and so clause.
niuch of tile 45th section of an act relating to crinies
and misdemeanors, committed by slaves, free negroes
and mulattoes: Approved the 21st day of November,
1828, as contravenes the provisions of this act, be and
the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. Be itjttrther enacted, That if any person do
feloniously take or steal any horse, mare or gelding, foal
or filly, such person and the accessary o accessaries be- Ifori stealiD,
fore the fact, to the said offence, slall be deemed guilty a felony.
of felony, and shall suffer death.
See. 4. Be it further enacted, That under the tern)
horse shall be included mules, asses, or any animal whose Under the (t,i
hoofs are not cloven. horse. '](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsfl0080&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)