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An Act to amend the law in relation to trading with slaves. 1857 615 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0414 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 615 A. D. 1857. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW IN RELATION TO TRADING WITH SLAVES. No. 4346. 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 if any person who had been once convicted of dealing, trading or trafficing, with a once convicted. slave, contrary to the Acts of the General Assembly, now of force, shall be a second time convicted of the like offence, such person (not being a white female) shall, for such second, or other subsequent offence, in addition to the penalties now prescribed by law, be whipped not exceeding thirty-nine lashes: Provided, That the said punishment shall not extend to any conviction for an offence committed prior to the passing of this Act. II. That any free negro, or free person of color, who shall sell, give, or in any manner deliver, liquor to a slave, without a permit from the owner, Permit. or person having charge of such slave, shall, upon conviction, be whipped not more than fifty lashes. In the Senate House, the twenty- first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and in the eighty-second year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America. JAMES CHESNUT, JR., President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives, AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE UNITED STATES TO PURCHASE A SUFFI- No. 4347. CIENT QUANTITY OF LAND IN THE CITY OF COLUMBIA, FOR THE EREC- TION OF A POST OFFICE AND A COURT HOUSE. Whereas, By virtue of an Act passed at the Thirty-Third Session of Preamble. the Congress of the United States, the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars was therein appropriated for the purchase of a lot of land in the city of Columbia, and State of South Carolina, on which to erect a building or buildings, to be used as a Post Office, and for other purposes, as the Govern- ment of the United States shall, at any time, order and direct. And whereas, also, In order that the said sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars Fifty thousand. may be so expended and applied for the better accommodation of the citizens of Columbia, and other persons therein interested, it is necessary, before the

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