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An Act to inflict capital punishment on slaves and free persons of color who may commit a certain offence. 1843 258 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0348 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 1813. AN ACT To INFLICT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ON SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR WHO MAY COMMIT A CERTAIN OFFENCE. No. 2893. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assenbly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, any slavo or free person of color, who shall con- The offbnce. juit an assault and battery on a white woman with intent to commit a rope, on being thereof convicted, shall slffr death without the benefit of clergy. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thcusand eight hundred and forty-threc, and in the sixty-cighth year of the Suvereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, Presidentof the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 2894. AN AC T TO ALTER AND AMEND TIE PATROL LAW. Be it eracted, by the Senate antd House of Representatives, now met and Fire arms,&e. sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That ttll fire to be seized, arms or other offensive weapons, which may be fbund in the possession of a slave, contrary to the provisions of the thirteentl section of ' An Act to ro- duce all Acts and clauses of Acts in relation to the Patrol of this State, into one Act, and to alter and anend the same, ratified the twenty-first day of December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, shall be suhject to be seized by a Patrol, ald to condemnation and lbrfliture to the Otth befbore use of the Regiment; but before such fire arms or other offetsive weapons be Magistratc. condemned, the leader of the Patrol who shall seize the same, shall within ten days next after such svizurc, go before the nearest Magistrate of the Pa. rish or District in which such arms or weapons ty have been seiz- ed, and make oath of the manner, time and place of the taking : and if the IMagistrate, on such oath or other examination, shall be satisfied that said armt or weapons have been seized agreeably to the provisions of the thirteenth see- Summtnons of tion of the said Act, he shall stutmon the owner of the slave from whom slave owner. said arms or weapons have been seized, to appear before himn within ten days after such summons, and show cause why said arms should not be condemned and forfeited pursuant to the provisions of this Act: and in default of tio owner, after such summons, to appear, or fhitlro to show sufficient cause, tle said arms or woapons shall, by certificate under the hand of the Magistrate, Condoiation, be declared condemned, and may be sold within ten days after such condcem. nation; and the pri coeds of the sale, after the payment of tle costs and chatrges of the proceedings, shall be paid to the Paymaster of the Regiment. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and in the sixty-eighth yearof the Sovereignty and Independence ofthe United States of Atmerica. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker.of the House of Representatives. 258

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