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Sec. go. Amf be it further enacted, That from and after the past
age of this act, the power of commuting punishments, shall be
vested only in the governor and senate, and thty may and are
hereby authorized to commute the punishment of crimes and
offences, provided however thatr the, governor and senate shall
not have power tr commute the punishment of any slave found
guilty of a capital offence.
Sec. 21. And be it further ejacted, That on the first Mon-
day of every month the clerk of the criminaltcourt of New-Orle-
ans, shall in the, presence of any two of the sectional justices of
the peace of the city, take out of the box which contains the names
of the jurors for the parish of Orleans, agreeably to the 2d section
of the act approved March 16, 1810, bearing title,An act to pre-
scribe the formalities to be had in the summoning of the grand and
petty juries, twenty-four persons to serve as grand jurors before
said caurt during the whole of said month, and on the Monday of
every week said clerk, assisted as above mentioned, shall take out
of said box the names of twenty-four persons to setye during that
week as petty jurors, before said court, and in all cases of capital
crimes, said clerk with the aforesaid justices of the peace, shall
make out a list of forty-eight persons duly qualified to serve as
petty jurors in said capital cases, and it shall be the duty of the she-
riff of the parish of Orleans, to furnish the list thus made out by
him and said justices of the peace to the accused, within the delay
required by law, and the grand and petty jurors in capital as well
as other criminal cases, shall be summoned before said court to fill
their respective functions. by the sheriff of the parish of Orleans,
for the day fixed on for the trial of said causes, as soon as said ju-
rors shall be taken out of the box, or a list of them made out, as
the case may be, and as above mentioned.
[Approved March 20, X818.]
AN A.CT for the relief and protection of persons brought into this State as Re.
demptioners.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the senate and House of Representatives
fo the State of Louisiana in general assembly convened, That when
any white persons are imported into this state as redemptiopers, it
shall be the duty of the governor, or of the person exercising the
authority of governor for the time being, to appoint two or more
discreet and suitable persons, well acquainted with the language of
Such redemptioners, to be guardians of such redemptioners, and it
shall be the duty of said guardians to go on board every vessel in
which such redemptioners shall have been imported,and to enquire
concerning the contracts they may have made respecting, the pay-
ment of their passage, and.the manner in which they may have bee
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