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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0186 and id is 1 raw text is: vice for a less term than life, shall be deemed a felony, and any per 1850.
son so offlndirig, if he or site be a white person, shall he punished
by a fine not exceed one thousand dollars, or whipping not exceed.
lug thirty-nine stripes, or imprisonment not exceeding one year
and if the person convicted of the crime aforesaid be a negro or mu-
latto, he or site shall suffer death.
Sgc. 2. Be it further enacted, That hereafter any slave who shall
entice, or use any means to induce any slave to run away, or aid, as.
sist or abet any slave in running away, or otherwise wilfully cause
a loss of labor of such slave to his or her owner or owners, shall, upon Enticing slavc
alidavit and warrant, be brought before any Justice of the Peace.. -pcnaty or.
the county where such offence is committed, and summarily tried
before such Justice, and if found guilty, the slave so offending shall
receive not exceeding one hundred stripes, and in all cases where
such slave is found guilty the owner or owners thereof shall be lia-
ble for the costs of such proceedings.
[Pssied the Senate, December 11, 1850. Pa'sed tho Iolh-c (if REprcsenta-
tives, Decenber 31, 1850. Approved by tlc Guovernor, January 6,18b I.]
CHAPTuR 388.-[No. 77.]
AN ACT amendatory to acts in reference to Militia and Patrol Dnties, and
Crimes mid Misdemeanors.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent.
otives of /he State of Florida in General Asscinby convened, lhat
from arid alter the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for the [ki'vilg plh'.
owner or p)roprietor of any larIn or plautatioai upon whi slaves are, l-
or shall be employed, to leave the same without any white person
residing thereon, under a penalty not exceeding oie hundred dol-
lars, to be recovered by indictinent, one half to the infoirmer, and
the other half to the use of the county in which the oflence or of-
fences shall be committed.
Si:. '2. Be it further enacted, That when the owner or proprie- Who exelipt.
tor of a farm or plantation, whether for agricultural or turleltine
purposes, upon which a slave or slaves may or shall be employed,
shall not be liable to the penalty herein prescribed : Procided, 'h'he Proviso.
owner or proprietor manages his own allairs without the aid of an
overseer.
Sc. 3. Be itfurther enacted, That any and all laws or parts of
laws inconsistent or conflicting with the provisions ol this act, be, Rlqli'l.
tud thesame are hereby repealed.
[Passed the House of Repreientatives, January 9, 1851. Thmed the Scnate
,JIuuary 17, 1851. Approved by the Governor, January 23, 18bl.]
Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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