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An Act to prohibit the Importation of Negroes, until the first Day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. 1796 73 (1796)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0025 and id is 1 raw text is: 1796.) Ads. 73 Tod. n~U /% d ~ of 7anvar, 0o7M ~Iw~d4~ E~&~' de) aA z~zeyowzm. W T HEREAS it appears to be highly impolitic to import negroes Preamble, from Africa, or other places beyond feas: Re it therefore enacted .by the Honorable the Senate and Houfe of Repre- fentativess, now met and fitting in General .df1embly, and by the autho- rity of thefame, That. th aimportation. of negroes from Africa, and mportationP other places beyond feas, be,. and is hereby prohibited, until the firft of negroes day of January, 1799: And every flave who thall be imported contrary prohibited to to this a4, iponlandingo being landed, or condunted into this ftate, toJanlx,1799 fhal be forfeited; and the governor is hereby authorized and required, to fell fuch. lav (one half of the proceeds of the fale to be for the bene- fit of the ftate, the other half to the informer.) .44be it further enacted by the authority. aforefaid, That the perfon, Penalty on or perfens, who fhall import or bring in fuch flave, upon being convift- importers. ed thereof, thallforfeit and ay to the ftate fifty pounds for each flave fo imported, or brought into this ftate: id the fhip, veffel, or other vehicle in which fich flave DIall be to unlawfully imported, is hereby 4eclared refponfible for paying the fame, and fhall forthwith be taken into poffegion, for and on bthalf of the ftate, unlefs thc offender, or of- f~ndera; or fome. theor perfn, or perfons, will, before Come judge or ma- giftrate, enter into bond, with ggod fecurity, to the. flate for payment of the faid penalty, together with fch colts. and charges, as fhall be ad- judged to be forfeilted, under or by virtue of this aft. In the Senate Hou/i, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-fix, and in the twenty-fr f year of the Independence of the United States of America. Oav A/ amnay, Prefident of the Senate. Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. e,~ ~ cri 46' n/1 e t/ Wfd eed to, dZee2r di&W Jwlelf ,.W HEREAS doubts exift, whether the court of equity has power Preamble. I' to permit truftees to refign their trufts, with the confent of the parties entitled to the ufe of the truft eftate, and to fubftitute other per- fons to fupport the truffs: U Be

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