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posing such company are hereby required to do duty in the
beat company to which they shall be attached.
Sec. 3. And be it enactid, That the officers commanding
the 2nd coimpany of the 2nd battation of the 19th regiment
of South-Carolinad militia, shall hereafter hold their com-
pany musters tat Brown's tavern, in St. John's parish,
Berklev.
Tin the Senate House, the twentieth day of )ecember, in the year, of ofl!
Lord one thousaid eight hAnnded- and iwent!y.shree, and in the frty-
sighth year of 1he ludependence of the United States of .rericyI.
JACOB BOND 'ON, President of the Senate.
PATRICK NOBLE, Speaker of ihe House of
lieprceentatives.
IIAP. 20.-An ACT the more effectually to prohibit free negroes
and persons of colour from entering into this state, and for other pur-
poses.
[Sec. 1.] Be it enacted by the honorable the Senaie and
House qf Representatives, now met and sitting in General
AssenblU, That from and aivr the passing of this act, it No free ne-
shall not be lawful for any frer negro or person of colour gro orp.
dsoil W ol Oour
to migrate into this state, or bt brought or introduced In- to con- into
to its limits, under any pretext whatever, by land or by this state.
water. And in case any such free negro or person of col-
our, (not being a seaman on board of any vessel arriving
within this state,) shall migrate into or be introduced in-
to this state, contrary to this act, he shall and may be car-
ried by any white person before some justice of the peace
of the district or parish where he or she shall he tiken,
which justice is hereby required to summon three free-
holders, and form a court to examine such free negro or
person of colour, and on conviction, to order him or her
to. leave the state: And every free negro or person of
colour so ordered to leave the state, and thereafter re-
maining longer than fifteen days within the same, or hav-
ing left the state, and thereafter returning to the same, up-
on proof thereof, made before any magistrate and three
freeholders, and on conviction thereof, shall be-subjected
to be senteniced to such corporal punishment as the said
magistrate and freeholders shall, in their discretion, think
fit to order. And if, after the said sentence or punishment,
such free negro or person of colour shall again remain
longer in this state than fifteen days, or having left the
state, shall thereafter return to the same, upon proof there-
of, before any magistrate and three freeholders as afore.
said, and on conviction thereof, the said magistrate and
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