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An Act to prevent the gaming of slaves, and to prevent free persons from gaming with them or suffering them to game in their houses. 1830-1831 14 (1830)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0122 and id is 1 raw text is: 46 LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA. thisnet,shall county wherein.said slave may be foupd, to issue a warrant (0 1esold byor- arrest said slave. and shall, upon proper proof being mate of his leronourtor her having.violated the provisions of this act, commit hini or her to the jail (if the county, there to remain until the next en- suing term of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, where at% issue shall be made up and immediately tried, whether the ac- cused has violated the provisions of this act; and upon the find- ing of the jury that said accused has violated the provisions of this act, he, she or they shall by the said Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions be ordered to be sold; which sale shall vest an absolute right of property in the purchaser in and to the accused, and the proceeds thereof be equally divided between the inform- er and the wardens of the poor of the county. VI. And be it further enacted, That if' any slave shull refuse f any slave or neglect to lanve the State as aforesaid, or shall ever come n cthestte, within the same after having left it, it shall and miay be lawful he. any per- for any person to bring suit in the name of the Governor, for the on miay bring joint use of himself and the wardens of the poor of the county, bonds given i, and to be applied by them to the support of the poor ot said pursuance of county, upon the bond which may have been given in pursuance this act. of the provisions of this act. VII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of all Duty of grand grand juries within this State to make presentment of all slaves juries&,prose- who may hereafter he emancipated, who may violate the provi- cutingoicers. sinus of this act of Assembly; and upon such presentment it shall be the duty of the prosecuting ollicer of the county wherein the presentment may be inade, to prosecute such slave as herein be- fore provided. Vill. Be it further enacted, That all laws and clauses of laws rtie. heretofore passed relative to the emancipation of slaves, be, and. the same are hereby repealed. CHAPTER X An not to prevent the gaming of slaves, nud to prevent free persons fiom ganing with then or sufemlcig thcin to game in their houses. Be it enacted by the General Assenbly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall not be lawul fuor any slave or slaves to play at any icte lof gm- game of cards, dice, nine pins, or any game of haxard or chance, ing,to receive for any money, liquor or any kind of property, whether the same not more thsn be staked or not; and any slave so olfending shall, upon convic- 9 lashes. tion before a justice of the peac:!, recevive a whipping on his or her bare back, not exceeding thirty nine lashes. II. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any white person or free negro, mulatto or person of mixed blood, Persons pro- descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclu.- hibited Iom sive, (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a ing wi white person,) to play at any game of cards, (lice, nine pins or any game of chance or hazard, whether for money, liquor, or any kind of property, or not, with any slave or slaves; and any white person so olfending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and

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