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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0241 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS 'OF THE. STATE OF FLORIDA,
PASED AT THE -
First Sesion of the Thirteenth General Aasembly,
* 1 864.
Jo 'N MILTON, Governor; B. F. ALLEN, Secretary of State; WALTERt GWYNN,
Uomptroller of Public Accounts; C H. AusTis, Treasurer; J. B, GALBlAITH,
Attorney General; A. K. ALLISON, President of the Senate; F, L. YILLEPIGUEO
'ecretary of the Senate; PnIuwP DELL; Speaker of the House; Wm. FoR-
BYTH .BY -uu, Clerk of the House.
OUATER 1,430-[No. 1.]
AN ACT to create special tribunals for the trial of Capital Offences committed
by Slaves, Free Negroes and Mulattoes.
SEcTiON 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Riep-
esentatives of the Sate of Florida in General Assembly
convened That slaves, free 'negroes and mulattoes aooused Tribunal com-
of capital crimes shall be tried by a tribunal composed of ,o'c of tie
two' Justices of the Peace and twelve citizens, qualified Ju- Peace.
rors of the couity where the crimie may have been commit-
ted. ' ' I
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever a slave,
free negro or mulatto shall be aqcused of a capital offence
by any 15erson under oath, the Justice of tjie Peace before Arrest of zIe-
whom the complaint is made shall cause the accused to 'be cued.
arrested 'and confined in the 6bunty jail to await his trial,'
and shall notify another Justied in the county of the char-
ges that have been preferred against such'slave, free negro
or mulatto, and shall require such Justice to attend at is
office the day after ,the receipt of such notification, or ais Notiflcatlon
soon afterwards as practicable, for the purpose of choosing ofand uattendance
twelve person, 'quaified' Jurors' of the county, to assist at
the trialS f the accused.
SEC. 0. ie itf~&t~er enacted, That the Justices 'slall se-
lect twelve persons, qualified Jurors as aforesaid, who shall Jurors.
be summoned to assemble at the county site of the county,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsfl0241&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)