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An Act to amend an act entitled An act supplementary to an act for the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors, and other supplementary acts. 1823 16 (1823)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0103 and id is 1 raw text is: 16 ) in the aforesaid parish, shall have any jurisdiction of civil matterg out of the ward in which he resides, except when there is no acting justice of the peace in an adjoining ward. Approved, February 25, 1823. AN ACT to repeal part of the act incnrporating the Roman Catholic inha. bitants of East Baton Rouge. Be it enacted by the Senate an trousp of lIepresentatives of the Stat, of jLouisia,ia, in General 4ss m4ily convened, Thatso much of the act incorporating the Roman Catholic inhabitants of East Baton Rouge, as demands ten dollars to be paid before they become members of said corporation, be and the same is hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force from and after the passage thereof. Approved, February 25, 1823. AN ACT for the relief of L. S. Hazelton. Be it enacted by the Senate and liouse of Ilepresentatives of the State of Louisiana, in General A.ssembt convened, That the sun of eighty dollars a year, for the years eighteen hundred and seven- teen, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eighteen hundred and nine- teen, and eighteen hundred and twenty, making together the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars shall be paid by the treasurer of the state to the said L. S. Hazelton, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, JIarcle4, 182S. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled An act supplementary to an act for the punishnient of crimes and nisdemcanors, and other supplementary acts, (passed on the 20th Mairch, 1818.) S.crIoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- comnuintion sentatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Jssedibly convened, per a That the Senate and the Governor shall have the power to coin- vurufstaves. mute the punishment of death into a lesser punishment, in favor of slaves, ihe may have been condemned, even forit capital offtnce, whenever recommended to the mercy of the Government, by the judge and jury who have tried the oflender, and whenever the cir- cuinstances of the case are such as to entitle the offender to such commutation. SECT. 2. Jind be itfirther enacted, That whenever the punish- Tir value ment of death shall be commuted to a perpetual imprisonment, the caes. estimated value of -the slave, whose sentence has been thus com- muted, shall be paid to his master, in the same manner as if the said slave had actually sullered death: Provided, nevertheless, that the owner of such slave convey to the state his property in the said slave, for and in consideration of the price paid to him, and which shall never exceed three hundred dollars: Provided, that these provisions do not. extend to slaves condemned for insurrec! tion. Approved, larch 5. 1823.

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