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An Act to amend Article 32, Section 8, of the Revised Code. 1863 147 (1863)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0384 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF 3ISSISSIPPI. panics and other parties to the contrary notwith- standing. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in force from and after' its passage. Approved, December 9, 1863. CHAPTER XXX. AN ACT to amend Article 32, Section 8, of the Revised Code. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That if any master, hirer, a te aot employer, or other person having control of a slave, trade. shall license or permit such slave to go at large and trade as a free man, the person so offending shall be liable to be indicted therefor, and on con- viction shall be fined in the sum of five hundred dollars and shall be imprisoned in the county jail Penalty. not more than. sixty days, and if after conviction such slave be found going at large and trading as a freeman, the master, employer, or otber person having control of such slave, shall be liable to a like prosecution and penalty, and so, after conviction as often as such slave shall be found going at large and trading, and the fact that such slave is found going at large, shall be sufficient proof that the master, hirer, employer, or other person having control of such slave, gave such license or permis- Sion. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That no master, ) not employer, or other person having control of a aloWed to slave, shall permit such slave to keep horses and orcarigoes vehicles, or either, for the purpose of hiring them out,. and if any master, employer, or other person having control of a slave, shall permit such slave to keep horses and vehicles, or either, for the pur- pose above named, he shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction he shall-be fined in the sum of five hundred dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than sixty days, and the fact that such horses and vehicles, or either, are

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