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An Act to alter and amend an act, entitled An act to prevent negro slaves and persons of colour from being brought into or entering this State 1802 36 (1802)

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ahy other table distinguished and known by any
other letters, or by any figures; or rowley pow-
ley, or rouge and noir, or of a Faro bank, or of
any other gaming table or bank of the same or
the like kind, under any other denomination
whatsoever, shall be deemed. and rated as va-
taming grants; and moreover, it shall and may be law-
tables  ful for any justice of the peace, by warrant un-
bmate der his hand, to order any such gaming table to
be siezed, and publicly burnt or destroyed.
And be itfurlber ena~led by the aulbority afore-
Thisaa faid, That nothing contained in this aa, shall ex-
not to re-
pealo-  tend, or be construed to extend to repeal or
ther aas make void, any law or a&, or part of any law
on the.
same    or aa, now in force in this state, relative to gam-
subjea. ing or the prevention and punishment thereof.
In the Senate House, the eighteenth day of Decen.
ber, in the Tear of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the twenty-seventh.
JOHN WARD, President of the Senate.
ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the House
of Representatives.
An ACT to alter and amend an al, entitlcd, 1 An
aR to prevent negro flaves and perfons qf colour
from being brought into or entering this Slate;
and alfo an aft upplementa;y to the a17 afore-
faid, andfor other purpofes therein-mentioned.
Pream-   yHERJEAS.the aa, entitled, 6 An aa to
ble'         prevent negro slaves and persons of colour
from being brought into or entering this state,
passed the twentieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred;
and the aa, entitled,  An aS supplementary
to an aa, entitled, 0 An aa to prevent.negro

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