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An Act to make the unlawful whipping or beating of a Slave an indictable offence. 1841 155 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0334 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. of emancipation, shall be void and of no effect; and every such donee or A. D. trustee shall be liable to deliver tip the samnef or held to account for the value thereof, for the benefit of the distributees, or next of kin. III. That any bequest, gift, or conveyance, of any slave or slaves, accom. Any beq &c., eon panied with a trust or confidence, either secret br expressed, that such slave ed for no or slavet shall be held in nominal servitude only, shall be void and of no effect; servitude and every donee or trustee, holding under such bequest, gift, or conveyance, to be voit shall be liable to deliver up such slave or slaves, or held to account for the value, for the benefit of the distribitteesi or next of kin, of the person making such bequest, gift, or conveyance. IV. That every devise or bequest, to a slave or slaves, or to any person, An beqi upon a trust or confidence, secret or expressed, for the benefit of any slave to ani or slaves, shall be null and void. In the Senate House, the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lorn, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in the sixty-sixth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN. ACT TO MAKE THE UNLAWFUL WHIPPING 01 BEAtlXG O X SLAvt 10. 2, AN INDICTABLE OFFENCE. Be it enacted, by the Honorable the Senate and House of' Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That if any person, after the passage of this Act, shall unlawfully whip or beat any slave, not under his or her charge, without sufficient provocation, by word or act, such person, on being indicted and convicted thereof,- shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the Court; the im. Venallty prisonment not to exceed six months, and the fine not to exceed five hundred dollars. In the Senate House, the seventeenth day of December,. in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in the sixty-sixth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of tle House of Representatives, AN ACT TO SUSPEND TRE ELECTION Or MEMBERS O CONGRESS PROMd THIS No. STATE. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and Act nrovi sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That so much for electi sittingMembers of an Act entitled an Act prescribing, on the part of the State, the time, Congress places, and manner, of holding elections for Representatives in the Congress Pen i

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