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An Act to alter and amend an Act, entitled, An Act abolishing certain punishments 1834 12 (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0265 and id is 1 raw text is: Dec.1834. CHAPTER 3..-An Act to alter and amend an Act, entitlcd, An Act abolishing certain punishments, and amending the law for the trial of slaves and free persons of color, passed on'the 19th day ofDecember, 1833. Be it enacted, by -the Senate and House of Representa- tives, That from and after the passing of this Act, in all cases whatever, wherein any slave, or free person of color, shall be con- victed of any offence, not capital, it shall, and may be lawful, for the Court, before which such conviction shall take place, to punish the said offender by imprisonment: Provided, that nothing in this Act contained, shall be construed to abolish any of the other punishmouts now provided by law in such cases. In the Senate House, the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty:for, and in the fifty-ninth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. 11. DEAS, President of the Senate. PATRICK NOBLE, Speaker off lie House of Representatives. CHAPTER 4.-An Act more effectually to prevent the illicit traffic in Cotton, Rice, Corn, or Wheat, with slaves and fiee persons of color. Penaltyforpur- SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House chasing cotton, of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly and rice, indiaa' rore or wheat, by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of ons a slave. February next, if any shop-keeper or trader, shall directly or in- directly, purchase from any slave, any Cotton, Rice, Indian Corn, or Wheat, either with or without a permit, such shop-keeper or trader shall, for every such offence, upon conviction thereof, be finedin a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned for a term not exceeding twelve months, nor less than'one month. What is evi- SEo. 2. If any shop-keeper or trader shall receive anly Cotton,Rice, lence of pur- Indian Corn, or Wheat, from any slave, he or she shall be presumed to have purchased the same, and the burthen of proof, that the same was not purchased, shall lie on the person charged or accused. The act of SEc. 3. In all cases of buying and selling any Cotton, Rice, In. er or a tdin Corn, or Wheat, contemplated and included ini the preceding principal. sections of this Act, the act of the clerk or ageiit of any shop-keep. er or trader, shall be considered the act of the shop-keeper or trader himself, and done by his authority; subjcet, however, to proof to the contrary. Penalty forgiv- Svc. 4. If any person, other than the owner, or individual having icah orua charge of any slave, or other person authorized by such owner or thority, individual, having charge as aforesaid, shall write or give such slave a permit, either. in his own name, or any other name, to sell n-

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