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An Act to prevent Jailors from releasing Runaway Negroes until the conditions therein expressed are complied with. 1843 43 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0155 and id is 1 raw text is: No. XL. An act to prevent Jailors from releasing Runaway Negroes until the conditions . therein expressed are complied with. ScrCION 1. Be it enacted by tie Governor and Legislative Caln. cil of the Territory of Florida, That in all cases of the apprelien- sion of Runaway Negroos, and their delivery to any Jailor within Runaways to said Territory, it shall be the duty of the person so apprehending lie delivered or delivering said Negro to the end of socuring the reward offered to JilorWlth wrilten ins- for such apprehension and delivery, to furnish said Jailor with a truetions. copy in substance of the advertisement ofrering said reward, ac- companiod with written instructions, not to deliver said Negro on the application of the owner or other person, until such reward be paid, and to require of the Jailor a receipt for said copy, and in- structions. Sec. 2. Be it farther cnacted, That whenever the terms of the first section of this act are complied with, if the Jailor shall deliver said Negro, without first securing the amount of said reward, and Jailor's duty. paying it over to the party interested in the same, on his application therefor, he shall on suit heing brought in any court, having juris- diction of the same, forfeit and pay to said party double the amount oflbred in said reward. Approved 15th March, 18.13. No. XI.. An act to establish Warrants or Drafts upon the Territorial Treasury, where the isano have hect lost or mislaid. SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the Gouernor and Legislative Council of the Territory of Fl'orida, Tlhat in all cases where warrants upon Public notice the Territorial Treasury shall be lost or mislaid, and the party shall wish to establish a copy thereof, on giving notice in some public gazette, for twenty-one days, of the fact of said loss, and of his intention to apply for the re-issue of said warrant or draft, it shall be the duty of the Auditor to re-issue the same : Provided, The party applying for such warrant or draft, shall give bond and seen- rity in double the amount thereof, conditioned to indemnify the Territory against all demands it may thereafter he required to pay, Provisos. in consequence of the original warrant or draft: And provided, also, That the party applying therefor shall make affidavit that the said warrant or draft has been lost, mislaid, or destroyed, without any design of said party, and in case of loss, that he has made diligent search therefor, and cannot find the same. Approved 15th March, 1843.

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