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An Act to amend an act entitled An act more effectually to prevent free negroes and other persons of color from entering into this State 1844 293 (1844)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0354 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH-CAROLINA. depart, as aforesaid, the said person shall be doemed guilty of a high misdo. A.D. 184-1. meanor, and shall be committed by the same authority horcihefore stated, for trial, to the common gaol of the district, unless admitted to bail as here- inbefore stated ; and upon due conviction before any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be sentenced to be banished from the State, and to such fine and imprisonment as the Co'urt shall think expedient. IV. That any person who shall be convicted a second or any subsequent Penalty for se time under the provisions of the first or third sections of this Act, shall be cond ofenbce. imprisoned for a term not less than seven years, and shall pay a line not less than one thousand dollars, and shall in addition thereto be banished from the State. V. That it shall be the duty of the Sheriff of ithe district to see that any Du3 of the sentence of banishment be duly executed, and that the offendor be sent Sicrifl. without the limits of' the State ; and in case any person so banished shall return within this State, (unless by unavoidable accident,) the Sheriff of the district where he may be found, shall hold him in cloqo confinement under the original sentence, until such ofFeider shall enter into recognizance before the Clerk of the Court, with sufficient sureties, to comply with the terus of the said sentence, and forever to remain without the limits of this State. In the Senate House, the eigthteonth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and in the sixty-ninth your 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 AmeND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT MORE EFrECTUALLY TO No.2926. FREVENT FREr NEGROES AND OTHER PasoNs OF COLOR FROM ENTERING INTO THIS STATE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSEs, PASSED THE NINETEENTH1 DAY OF DECEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TIllRTY-FIVE. I. Be.it enacted, by the Senate and louse of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, 'lat no Negroes, &c. negro or free persoin of color who shall enter this State on board any ves- entrin , not sel, as a cook, steward, or mariner, or in any other employment on board wt o'haas such vessel, and who shall be appreltendedt and confined by any Sheriff, in corpus. pursuance of the provisions of said act, shall be entitled to the W1 it of haboas corpus, or any benefit under, and by virtue of the statute made in the King. dom of Engla nd, in the tlirty-first year of the reign of King Charles the Second, entitled An Act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and to prevent imprisonment byond seas, andl imade of force in this State; and the provisions of the said Habeas Corpus Act, and the several acts of Assembly of this State amendatory thereof, are hereby declared not to apply to any free negro or person of color entering into this State contrary to the provisions of the aforesaid net of Assembly, passed the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- five. I. That in case the Sheriff of the District into the ports or harbours of 293

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