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An Act to alter the law in relation to slaves hiring their own time, and for other purposes. 1849 578 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0375 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 1sio. representativo; St. John's, (Colloton,) two representatives ; St. Helena, one representative; St. Luke's, one representative; St. Matthew's, one repre- sentative; St. Paul's, one representative; St. Peter's, two representatives; St. Thomas and St. Dennis, one representative ; Union, thre representa- tives ; Williamsburg, two representatives ; York, four representatives; Charleston, (including St. Phillip's and St. Michael's,) eighteen representa- tives; St. Stephen's, one representative. In the Senate House, the ninetectith day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand elght hundred and forty-ninc, and in the seventy-fourth year of the Sovereignty and indepeideneo of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. JOHN IZARD MIDDLETON, Speaker Ihouse ofRepresentaties. No. 3075. AN ACT TO ALTER Tu LAW IN RELATION TO SLAVES HIRING THEIR OWN TIMtE, AND FOit OTHER ruaPosEs. Act amended. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in Gonoral Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the sixth Section of an Act, ontitled An Act for the better Regulation and Government of Free Negroes and Persons of Color, and for other purposes, passed the twenty-first day of Decomber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, be so altered and When to take amended, that from and after the twelfth lday of March next, it shall not efect. be lawful for any person, owning, or having in charge, any male or fe- male slave, to permit such slave to hire his or her time, labor or service; and any person, owning, or having in charge, a slave or slaves, so offend- ing, shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Dollars, to be recovered by indict- ment, one half of which shall be paid to the informer, and the other half to the use of the District in which the offence is committed; and that all provisions heretofore made by law in relation to said offence, be, and the same are hereby repealed. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred an(1 forty-nine, and in the seventy-fourth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of Anerica. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. JOHN IZARD MIDDLETON, Speaker House of Representatives. 578

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