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An Act to empower the Commissioners of Cross Roads for Charleston Neck, to appoint a Collector of Patrol Fines. 1832 60 (1832.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0251 and id is 1 raw text is: Dec. . before them, to be paid as magistrates are now paid in L/v1J the trial of slaves and other persons of color: And the other or ministeriIl ninagistrates shall receive all other fees authorized by law in magistrals's cases, and the additidual sun of twenty-five cents for attending and conducting each trial. SEC. 2. .lnd be it furher enacted by the authorily afiresaid, That when, any slave or 'other person of color shall be charged with an iffence not capital, a On r'a iof unj0irity of the freeholders, with the concurrence of co(mP 1the preling magstrate. are het eby authorized and neesI to emnpowe red to find the. verdict, and determine the na- convict, &c. ture and extent of the punishmuentto be inflicted: but when ihe frecholders are unaniioff , the coneurvence of the niagistrate shall notbe required: Provided, how- ever, that on the trial of a slave, or other person of color, for any capital -offrefic, the unanimous concur- rence of the freeholders, and ilso of one of the princi- pal magistates, shall be iecessaiiy to conviction. SEc. 3. And be ii fut/her enacYed, That the Judicial Magitrates Mlagistrates,shall open a docket book, and keep'it open to Opena docket book. every lay, during the sitting of the Magistrate's court, for the trial of causes small and mean, in which shall be entered all cases for the trial of slaves and other per- sons of color; and upon. which entry being made, the Judicial Magistrate presiding, shtill .appoint the time when the trial shall be had. . In the Senate Iouse, the tventi th day of Decemzbe,, in the year of our Iord one ,housand eig it :und 1 and thirty-two and in the/iffty coseventh year of the sovereigikty and independence of the Unitel States o/ .dmerica. 11. DEAS, President ofthe Senate. H1. L. PINCKNEY, 6yeakerof the oueu of Representativee CHAP. 27.-An ACT to empower-the Commissioners of Cross Foads for Charleslon Neck, to appoint a Collector of Patrol Pines. Nec. 1. Be it enacted by the Hon.rable the Sehate and Iouse of Representatives, now met and sitting in (enerail Assembly, and by the authoriy ,; the same, That so much of the Act of General Assenibly, ratified th. twentieth day of December, one thousand eight ha1died wid twenty-three, as appoints the Collector of the heginent to i cl:evt the fines and penalties imposed for neglet or defaull in the performance of Patrol duty on Charleston Neck, be, and the same is hereby repealed: And that the Commissioners of Cross Roads for Charles- Go

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