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No. 187.] AN ACT
To prevent the buying from, selling or giving to slaves without the consent, in writing'
of their owner or employer.
SECTION 1. Be it eaaded by the Senate and House of Representa
Penalt 'r tives of the 8*ate of Louisiana in General Assembly convenedi, That
or eciving y person who shall buy, sell or receive of, to or from any slave,
artd. of pro. any corn, hay, fodder, meal, spirituous liquors, or other produce or
des without the commodity whatsoever, without the convent, ill writing, of the owner,
Witnconsent
orf uts aster, overseer or employer of such slave, shall be held guilty of a high
misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not
less than fifty nor n-ore than five hundred dollars, and shall be im-
prisoned in the parish jail, not less than one nor more than twelve.
months, one half of the line to be paid to the informer and the other
half to the parish.
In the indictment or information for the offense specified in this
section, it shall not be necessary to charge the kind or quantity of
the produce or commodity so bought, sold or received, nor the
name of the slave, nor the name of his owner. and on the trial of
such indictment, it shall not be necessary to prove the name or
ownership of such slave, but it shall be deemed and held sufficient
to provo that such buying, selling or receiving was of, to or from a
slave, if ie be a person of color.
Penalty to keep SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, dc., That if any slave shall be seen
ay, 11 a or found in any storehouse, warehouse, tippling shop, or other place
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place aher cer- fitted up or kept for trading, unless sent by his owner, overseer or em-
certain a on ployer, after the hour of nine o'clock at night, or before daybreak in
therein men- the morning, or on the Sabbath day; or if any slave shall be found
' at any time in any of the aforementioned places, unless sent as afore-
said, where lie shall have been permitted to remain for the space
of five minutes with the door of the place closed; or if any slave
shall be seen to carry into the aforementioned place any article
or commodity supposed for sale, and not bringing the same out,
or if he shall bring out of such place any article or commodity
which may have been purchased or received therein; or if any
slave, being a teamster, or driver of any team, cart, wagon or
other vehicle, shall be seen to leave his team before or near the
door of any such storehouse, warehouse, tippling shop, or other
place fitted up or kept for trading, and enter such place and thqre
remain for the space of five minutes, at any hour of the day or
night, without the consent of his owner, overseer or employer, and
shall be seen to carry into the aforesaid place any article or commo-
dity supposed for sale, and not bring the same out; or if he shall
bring out of such place any article or commodity 'which may have
been purchased or received therein, without the conset aforesaid, or
if tho owner of the aforementioned places of trading, or slave, or
any serson of whatsoever description, is seen to go to the aforesaid
teamster's vehicle, be it of any description, and take or receive
therefrom, or receive from it, by the teamster, or any one else, any
article or commodity whatsoever, supposed for sale, and take the
same into the aforesaid place for trading, and not bring the same
out; or if they bring out of the place of trading any article or com-
modity supposed to have been purchased or received therein, and](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsla0446&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)