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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0216 and id is 1 raw text is: CHMI.1S AND PUNISIlMENTS.
sMe, That any person or persons who shall steal, or shall
by violence, seduction or any other means, either take or
convey away any save or slaves, the property of another
or others, with an intention to sell or dispose of to another
or others, or to appropriate to his or their own use such slavo
or slaves, and he thereof legally convicted, shall be adjudg-
ed guilty of folony, and sliaill suffer deatth without benefit of
Clergy.
(Ratified 29th day of Jnuary, 1E.49.]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
AN AC'!T more eflectually to suppress the trnflic with slaves,
and on endatory of the 75th section of the :34th chapter
of the Revised Statutes, entitled 1 Crimes and Punish-
Inlents.
FRMON
I prohibits buying from tinves i on or steel, whetler rannufactured or not.
2 Repenls provision as to linic ef Irnpisig ruit.
1 Time of bringing suit limited to two y ears.
See. 1. Be it rnacted by the General qsscniby of the Statc
of North Carolina, a! it is hr(ty nawictd ly the authority of
the same, That, in addition to the articles enumerated and
specified in the 75th section of the .34th1 chapter of the Ile-
vised Sattes, entitled ' Crimes and Punishments, it shall
nt be lawful for any person or persons to buy of, traffic Iron or
tee pro-
with, or receive from, any slave or stives, any iron or steelhibited.
whether manufactured or not, unle's Ow sm e he with the
written consent of the owner or man er of such slave or
slaves, or for the use of such owner or maunger ; and any
person or persons offending against the provisions of this act?
shall be liable to indictment, and on conviction, shall be
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