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An Act to reduce into one the several acts concerning Patrols. 1822 202 (1822.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0066 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS Oil IHE STAT'E OF MISSISSIPPII. himself or herself, such free negro or mulatto shall be deema- ed and treated as a vagrant. COWLES MEAD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID DICKSON, Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senat#, Approved: June the 18th, 1822. WALTER LEAKE. AN ACT', to reduce into one, the several acts concerning Patrols. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House nf Represen- tatives of the State of lississippi, in General .issembly convened, That every owner of slaves, and all other persons below th rank of captain, liable to perform militia duty, are bereb, declared liable to perform patrol duty, as herein after direct- ed, but shall be at liberty to send a substitute to perform saic duty. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of each and every captain o militia, ov conmardin'g officer of a company, to regulate pa trols within their own companies, or districts, by making at every company muster of their respective companies, by ro- tation, a proper list of patrol detachments, and appoint to eve. ry such detachment a leader or proper officer; which detach- ments shall severally consist of three men, besides their lead- er, and perform the duties of patrols once in every two weeks or oftener, if ordered by the commanding officer of their com- pany, for the space of three months, or until the next compa- ny muster, within the district to which they belong: Provided, No one shall be compelled to serve out of his regular routine of duty. SEC. 3. It shall he the duty of eaci patrol detachment, h visit all negro quarters, or places suspected of containing un lawful assemblies of slaves, or other disorderly persons un lawfully assembled; and up61n finding such, to take him, he or them, if free, before the nearest or most convenient justir of the peace of such county, or make report thereof to sa justice, so that he, she or they, may he dealt with accordinL to law; and if any slave or slaves shall he found so assembled or stroling without a pass, or some token from his or her own- or oroverseer, the said patrol may give any such slave, an number of lasbes not oxceeding fifteenj and if there be reaso

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