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An Act to provide compensation to owners of slaves executed. 1843 264 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0350 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A.D. 1843. V. Any vacancy occurring in said office shall be supplied by the Fresident Vacncs and Directors aforesaid, in manner, and with the same security, as are pro. Vacancies. vided in these respects by the second section of this Act. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundrod and forty-three, and in the sixty-cighth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of 1te House of Representatives. No. 2902. AN ACT TO PROVIDE COMPENSATION TO OWNERS OF SLAVEs EXECUTEf. 1. Be il enacted, by the Senate and House of Represcutatives, now met Appraise- and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That ments, how - Z madeand paid. in case any Slave shall be put to death in pursuance of the sentence of a Court of Magistrates and Frecholders within this State, the Court imposing such sentence, or a majority of them, shall, before they order the sentence to be executed, appraise any such Slave at any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, and shall certify such appraisement to the Treasurer of the Division within which such proceedings inay be had, who shall be authorized and re. quired to pay the same to the dwner of such Slave. The past com- II. That the compensation'heretofore provided by law to the owners of pensation al- Slaves suffering death by the sentence of Court in certain cases, be allowed owed on Exe- cutions within to the owner of any Slave that shall have suffered death in like manner, for the last 4 years. any offence whatever, within the last four years. In the Senate House, the ninetcenth any of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and in the sixty-cighth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, Presidcnt of the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 2903. AN ACT To ESTABLISH AN INSPECTION AND VARE-HOUSE AT IIAMBUEG, IN EDGEFIELD DISTRICT. I. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met When estab- and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That an lished, Regula- Inspection and Ware-House, for the inspection and reception of Tobacco, is tions, &c. hereby authorized to be established at Hamburg, in Edgefield District,. as soon as conveniently may be after the passing this Act, which shall be sub- ject to all the regulations, restrictions and conditions mentioned, set forth and expressed, by an Act of the Legislature, entitled An Net for regulating the inspection and exportation of Tobacco, passed the thirteenth day of March, 264

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