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An Act to amend the Laws in relation to slaves and free persons of color. 1834 13 (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0267 and id is 1 raw text is: trade in any article or commodity, for the sale whereof; or lind- Dec. 1814. ing in which, a permit is now required by law, he or she shall, if a white person, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon coil- viction thereol, shall be fined in a suni not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than two hundred dollars, (one half whereof shall go to the infbrmer,) and lie or she shall bc iiprisoned not less than one month ; and if a fcre person of color or slave, shall he whipped according to the discretion of the magistrates and free-holders before whomi he or she is convicted. SEe. 5. That if any shop-keeper or trader, within the parishes of Plenalty for 1r- St. Philips and St. Michaels, shall, directly or indirectly, purchase h1 att , or receive from any free person of color residing within the said froni tree yer- parislies, any Cotton or Milled Rice, such shop-keeper or trader, shall, sof , for every such oftence, upon conviction thereof; be liable to all the of St. Phifips penalties imposed by this act, on shop-keepers or traders liur- & St.Miiad chasing from slaves, unless such free person of color shall have the written permit. of his guardian to sell such Cotton or Milled Rice. In the Senate House, the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and in the fi/ty-ninth year of the Sovereignty and Indepen- dence of the United States of America. H. DEAS, President of the Sepnate. PATRICK NOBLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAPTER 5.-An Act to amend the Laws in relation to slaves and free persons of color. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House Penalty for of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and teachingasive by the authority of the same, If any person shall hereafter teach to read or writu any slave to read or write,. or shall aid or assist in teaching any slave to read or write or cause or procure any slave to be taught to read or write; such person, if a free white person, upon conviction thereof, shall, for each and every offence against this act, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, and imprisoned not more than six months; or if a free person of color, shall be whipped not exceed- ing fifty lashes, and fined not exceeding fifty dollars, at the discretion of the court of magistrates, and free holders before which such free person of color is tried; and if a slave, shall be whipped at the dis. cretion of the court, not exceeding fifty lashes: the informer.to be entitled to one half of the fine, and to be a competent witnesis; and if any free person of color or slave, shall keep any school or other place of instruction, for teaching any slave or free person of color to read or write, such free person of color or slave, shall be liable to the same fine, inprisonmuent and corporal punislnoient, as are by this section, imposed and inflicted on free persons of color and slaves, for teach- ing slaves to read or write.

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