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An Act to prohibit the trading with Slaves, except in the manner therein prescribed. 1826 7 (1826)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0094 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS'OF NORTH CAROLINA. after commended in this State, either in the County or SuperiorSui ch- Courts, oh bonds, Rromissory notes, or liquidated accounts after, under under the sum of one hundred dollars, shall be dismissed by $100, to be said Court. dismissed. CHAPTER XIII. An act to probibit the trading with Slaves, except in the manner therein pre- scribed. Be it enacted by the General .Assembly of the State of North- Carolina, and it is hereby. enacted by the authority of the same, 'That from and after, the first lay of May next, if any person Articles of or persons shall buy of, traffic with, or receive from any slave or Mdeprohibit- slaves, any cotton, tobacco, wheat, rice, oats, corn, rye, pork, bacon, beef, leather, raw hides, iron, castings, farming utensils, nails, meal, flour, spirituous liquor or wine, peas, salt fish, flax, flaxseed, hogs, cattle, sheep, wool, lumber, staves, tar, pitch, turpentine, fodder, shingles, hoops, white oak heading, and po- Iatoes; or if any person or persons shall sell, barter with, or de- ver to any slave or slaves, any goods, wares, and merchandize, r other article of personal property, every person so offending, Offenders to /shall for each offence, forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred fofeitand pay dollars, to be recovered by warrant, before any. Justice of the l00 dollars. Peace, and applied, one half to the use of the party suing for the same; the other half to the wardens of the poor of the county: Provided, however, that it shall and may be lawful for any per- son or persons, in the day time only, Sundays excepted, viz. Proviso. between the rising of the sun and the setting thereof, to buy of, traffic with, or receive from any slave or slaves any such arti- cle or articles as aforesaid, for which he, she, or they may have a permission in writing, from his, her, or their owner or mana- ger, to dispose of the same: and further, it shall and may be law- Slave to have ful for any person or persons, in the day time as aforesaid, to written per, sell and deliver to any slave or slaves, any goods, wares, or mer- mission. chandize, or other thing (spirituous liquors always except- ed) in exchange for, or payment of the money, or article, or ar- ticles, which the said slave or slaves may have been, by the written permission aforesaid, autlhorised:to sell. II. Be it further enacted, That the foregoing offences shall Offences in- moreover be indictable in the County or Superior Courts of Law, dictable in the and the defendant, on conviction, shall be fined, or imprisoned County or Su- at the discretion ot the Court; the fine, however, not to exceed perior Courts fifty dollars, or the imprisonment, three months; and if it shall Pishment. appear on the trial,.that the defendant is a licensed retailer of spirituous liquor, by the small measu e, he or she shall also for- feit his or her retailing license, and shall be incapable of taking a new license, for the space of two years, from and after the date of his or her conviction. III. Beit further enacted, That if any person shall fraudulent- Penalty for ly give, orcause to be given to any slave, the property of another, forgingpermit a permission in writing, to sell, trade, or traffic in any article ofloo dollars. personal property, without the consent or authority of the mas- ter, own.r, ox the person having the management of such slave, 7

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