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An Act to prohibit the importation of Slaves into this State from any of the United States, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 1816 22 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0096 and id is 1 raw text is: ( 22 ) Monday after the fourth Monday in March and Octo- ber; and at Jacksonborough, for Colleton district, on the third Monday after the fourth Monday in March and October in every year; cach of which said courts shall sit and be holden six days, and no longer. And .ill writs and other process of law, which shall have been made returnable in the said courts, according to the laws heretofore.in force, shall be legal and valid, to all intents and purposes; and the persons bound there- by shall attend on the days prescribed by this act for the sitting of the said courts respectively. In the Senate House, the nineteenth Day of Decemlber, in the Year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and in the For- t frest Year of the Independence ofthe United .States of America. JAMES Rt. PRINGLE, President of the Senate. THOMAS BENNETT, Speaker of the Houwe of liresentatives. An ACT to prohibit the importation of Slaves into this State from anU of the United States, and for other p)umposes therein mentioned. B E It enactedby the honorable theSenate and House A of Representatives, now met and .itting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from WoSlaves and after the passing of this act, no slave, nor any negro, tbbebro't Indian, Moor, mulatto or mustizo, bound to serve for into taeO life or a term of years, shall be brought into this state ' from any of the United States, or any of the territories or countries bordering thereon: and if any slave, or any negro, Indian, Moor, mulatto or mustizo, bound to'service for a term of years, shall be imported or brought into this state contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, such slave or slaves, negro, Indi- an, Moor, mulatto or mustizo, shall be deemed and ta- ken as a forfeiture to the state, and one half of whose .,value shall be paid to the person or persons inforning of such importation or bringing in: and the person or persons importing or bringing in such slave, negro, In- dian, Moor, mulatt. or mustizo, so as aforesaid, shall be liable to be indicted therefor, and upon conviction thereof, shall he fined fifty dollars for every slave, ne- gro, Indian, Moor, mulatto or mustizo, so as aforesaid by him or them imported or brought into this state: Provided that if any person shall be travelling into o., through this state without any intention to reside per- manentlv thercin, with not more than two slaves, ne-

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