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An Act to regulate the granting of badges by the commissioners of Wilmington, and to restrain slaves to whom lodges may have been or hereafter may be granted from working in improper places, and for other purposes. 1828-1829 66 (1828)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0108 and id is 1 raw text is: LA S OF NORTH CAROLINA, Company, anti by that, name shall have regular succession and i common weal; unsy acquire.und hold, sell anil transfer estate, real an personal; wity sue and be sued, plead- ani be imPalileds and generally posseas, exercise and enjoy all the rlghts and p-1wers iialy :ossesedexercised atnd enjoyed by other corpotraTlitkns in this btate, makitg suci rules and regulations r. their own goveininent 1% they nay deem proper, the same being; not incon. sijoent with the contstitution antd laws of the landI. ' II[. .*nd be it firther rnacted, That this charter shall expire at the end of twenlty he years tiomand after the ratification heicof. CHAPTER ( XII An act to regulate the Pgrnting' or hadgslt by thit enunisioners of Wilinington, ani to restrain alutves to wihmtt budges unatyithave been or lieafter nity be graitel Cromn) workaig i imtjbproper pinces, 11mi1 filr Other purpo11ses.I Br it enacted by Ith General .3smembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted bu the authority 'oj the same. Thai fii'* anti after the p;, ...ge of this act, i sha1ll out fie Iawfui lor lhe comnnissioners of the (own of Wa:mingion to grant badges to any slaves except such as may in their opinion be necessarv to iarry on the ordinary husiness of the town and foir the ipure pes of commerce, unr in.any case except upon the written request of the owner or manager of suid slave. 11 He it further enacted. That no mechanic, who is a slave, anti to whom a budge may be granted by said commissioners, shall be pernitled to make any contract for the execution of any work within his trade beyond the value of ole day's woo k; but all such contracts shall be enterl Into by the iasters or in nagers, or their agents; and no recovery shall hereafter be had in lan for any hervices rendeei id or woolk d'ane by any meclhanic, who is a slave, upon aiv rontract or agreement made with any peison by said slave, except as above speci fil. > Ill. lBe itfurther enacted, That it sh'all not hereafter be lawful for said commijssI'es t' grant badges or heenes to huxles toany female slaveunder the age of forty yeas; and in case any female slave, under the age of forty vers, to whom a ble' shall have hern granted by said comniissioners, shall be guilty of pursuing :h' occupaion of huxter, said slave shall be taken up by the constable of the town, and upon indictment in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sevsiotns of New Hanover enunty, and convicted thereof, shall be hired out for. the term of onte Year, except where such slave shall have been hired out by the owner toume . otler person for one year or% more; in which case said slave shall he hired ut for the bailance of the time for which she may have been hired out by her owner; one half of said hire to be applied to th u-hI of the ini foriter, atd the othIer half to the use ofl the own IV lie itfurther enacted That vs, lave, to whtoi a bad'e shall hereafter br granted by sadi commi ionter. shall have any license or privilege by virtue of srou budge to hise* ono Iie in her tine, or work in any place except within tho. limit; oil file 10i. is h% lig l ittn or ot board a vessel lking in the river, or tn some wharf opposite to the town, or within (tne half mile of the boun- da' % of the 'own. V Be it further enacted, That if any slave, to whom any badge shall have ben given by said rommioinners, shall at any titte within the year for wich said badge shall have been gratted, be found at work at any ofher place than th t1 hlioive 1 eriflteal. w heiber with or wittont the consent of the owner or Manager, Uilebs it be.unt bns oir her owner or anaraer's lla or premises,

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