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An Act to amend, An Act the more effectually to prohibit Free Negroes and Persons of Colour from entering into this State and for other purposes. 1825 41 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0164 and id is 1 raw text is: 41 . 9a. ,-nd he it further enacted, That if any free Dec. 1825, ~caie 'plat 01 nusti'Zo,.ldl be S1utin oned to ivork on *J the I oad aciording Ito I le provisions of I this act. ancd shall e rsonSor refuse or ieglevt to work thereon as required by the Com- coloiu ic- minioilner or 'onmissioter's of such road., he shall be lihle '!- 'rioit, . tio lb iii to be filed to the same exteit as any other person: And in snd. def1ult of paymient of such line, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioner or Commissioners, to issue his or their Va rrunt to any coustale, requiring and command- ing him to take such free nearo, mulatto or mustizo into his ciastody and d(liver hint to the Jailer of the district, to be cotliiled for such I ime is Ithe Cornmissioner or Coni- missimiers in sub airti shall direct, not exceeding twelve days in miv one . ear. Sc. 3 . ./Hd be i ifirther enacted by the av/ihority qfresuid, That t welve meim bers ofthe Board of Cotnmis- Twelve Sioners of Olds f(orSt Pautl's parish..shall forIml a quoruim miemlbers to to transact bulsiness ; and the. each Bo.:rd of Comnission- l, St. ( '1tu ers of Roads in this State, shall he furnished, on applica- paristh. tion, with a copy of' the acts of the Logisilature annuaily; noardstabe anti also with copies of all the acts pa.sed subsequent to (iurnis'ed the publieation of Birevard's Digest, or as many as can be w'ithithe obtained. laws. Sec. 31. .R1ud be it furthe enacted by the authorily aforesaid. That all nets and clauses of acts of the General n pealing Asqemibly of this State heretofore passed, relating to tie clause. powers and duties of the Commissioners of the Roadscon- trary to or invonsite:i t with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. In the Ycnate 1Huse the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thoisand eight hundred ind twenty-five, and in thefftieds Iear of t/w lin dependen ce of' th United States of. merica. JACOB HOND PON, Presidentofthe Senate. JOHN Bt. O'NEALL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. flAP..-An ACT to amenul An Act the more effectually to proi' bit Free Negroes and Persons of Colour from entering into this State, and( ftor otier pir'poses. WHEREAS nany coloured persons from the northerm States and clsewhcre, have arrived in the ports and liar- boutrs of this State, under pretence of their being descend- ed Crom Free Moors, Indians mid Lascars, on both fathers and mothers side, lyringing with them certificates and pa- per' ti'.*.' t ha i te 1 re of such descent, when, ona itspection, they appear to be mulattoes or mustizoes, by-

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