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An Act imposing a Tax on Slaves. 1804 336 (1804.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0004 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 336 ) CH AP. 1111L AN ACT lampstatg .a Trs sM SlsWs. Sec. 1. ) E it enaied by the gewrner of I ) the territory of Orln, by and with the adtice and enfent of the lglftatir States f$ council trtcf, That ail laives held or own. JE t. ax **d, ed by citizens of faid territory tali be fub. jea to an annual tax of fifty cents for every Glave fo hld or owned, to be colleated and paid in the manner hercinafter provided for. Sec. s. And he itfurther enald, That the tre2furers of the feveral counties fhall fsreri to aj'wr- refpedively affix at the doors of the houfs tjjlfa hu. where their courts are held, at the doors of rari toliveI a the feveral churcbhs in their counties, and '? - at fuch other pubic places as they may dem bell calculated vo give genera! notice, advcr- tifements, caling on all owners of flaves within their leveral counties, to deliver to the f.a, treaforer of luOI county, lifts of all flAVes 14hich they mayown in any part of this territory ; and4 alfo calling upon all overfects, agents and otry perfons holding flaves of pcrtas refiding out of the territory,to deliver to fAid trtaturer lifls of all fuch fives as may be held or employed by them: the Lid lfs *0 be dclivered before the firft day of Au. guft in every year. I Sec. 1. 4And it it furtber rxuqed, That a td ,,every owncr of any Ilaves thall bcfore the i1 f thrrV. faid day of Auguft is every year, dclivr c

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