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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 1856 573 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0410 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA A. D. 1856. AN.ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT MORE EFFECTUALLY 481 No. 4311. TO PREVENT FREE NEGROES AND OTHER PERSONS OF COLOR FROM ENTERING INTO THIS STATE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, PASSED THE NINETEENTH DAY OF ECEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNERED AND THIRTY-FIVE. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Exemption from ccrtain free negroes and persons of color brought into this State in any vessel not poovions bound to any port in the State, but which shall be driven into any port of this State, by stress of weather, or compelled to enter therein by mutiny or other cause which makes said entry involuntary on the part of those con- trolling the said vessel, shall be and the same are hereby declared, from and after the passing of this Act, exempt from the operation of an Act entitled An Act more effectually to prevent free negroes and other persons of color from entering into this State, and.for other purposes, passed on the nine- teenth day of December, in the year of our Lord ope thousand eight hun- dred and thirty-five, and all other Acts subjecting such persons to impris- onment: Provided, That such free negroes and persons of color so brought Proviso. into any port of this State, shall remain on board the vessel in which they shall be introduced, or in such other place as may be selected for their ac- commodation by the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of the nearest municipal corporation. II. That from and after the passing of this Act, whenever any free negro Duties of nstes of or person of color shall come into this State, in any vessel not driven into resos a port of this State by stress of weather, or compelled to enter by mutiny or other cause, which makes such entry involuntary on the part of those controlling said vessels, as a cook, steward, mariner, or in any other em- ployment on board such vessel, it shall be the duty of the master, owner or person having control of such vessel, immediately on his arrival in port, to report to the Mayor or other chief municipal officer of such port, and there be no such municipal officer, then to the nearest Magistrate, the name, description and capacity of any such free negro or free person of color, and shall enter into bond to the Mayor or other chief municipal of- ficer or magistrate aforesaid in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, with two sufficient sureties, being freeholders, in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars each, conditioned that each and every such free negro or colored 573

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