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An Act to amend and declare the Law relative to the trial of Slaves. 1798 125 (1798)

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ted, it Ihall be iheduty of the attorney-gene. Duty of t.
ral to examine into the fame, and. if in his fY
Opinion the hiid rights, interefls, or claims
are injured or impaired by the faid judg-
ments or decifions, to take an appeal there-
from to the court of appeals ; which appeal
the f'id dilirit courts or general court are
hereby direlIed to grant, upon the applica-
tion of the attorney-general, w ithout requir-
ing fecurity from any perfon for the prole-.
cution thereof.
So much of every ac or adts as comes Itc, t ,,-
within the pur'view of this ad f]all be and
the fame is hereby repeated.
This ad shal) commence and be in force Conirncna,
from and after the palage thereof.     in:'
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..  CHAP. LXIV.
A4n Jac to amend and declare t&'e Law rdeltive
to the trial of Slaves.
Approved, December i 9th, 1798'
1. B, it enaced  y the General A1ml'l,', lJ'
that when a flave or ilaves fhall be cliarge'd ,li,. i  , i,,
with any crime, the juffice before whoi he -him. *t
thall be charged, if there appears to him to
bejuft ground for the charge, fhall iflue his
warrant to the flieriff of the county whereo 5h'
the offence was coinnIitted, to fuimmoni  the uj
jullices of the court of quarter fefflons of
the county where the crime is alledged to
have been committed, in the fame mancr,
and to meet within the fame -time as is di-
re6ted in the cafe of a free perfon charged,

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