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An Act to alter and amend the 37th section of an Act, entitled An Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other slaves in this province. 1858 738 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0422 and id is 1 raw text is: 71s ATUMM AT LARGHl t * AS Ad O fALTAI. AND AMEND THE 37TH SECTION or AN ACT, EnTITLED No. 4422. AN ACT IOR TRE BETTER ORDERING AND GOVERNING NEGROES AND OTHER SLAVES IN THIS PROVINCE, PASSED THE TENTH DAY OF MAY, IN THE YEAR O oUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY. 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, being the owner of any slave, or having the care, management or Orad punish- control of any slave, shall inflict on such slave any cruel or unusual punigh- mat HIlegL ment, such person on conviction thereof, under indictment, shall be fined and imprisone4 at the discretion of the Court: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the owner or person having charge of any slave, from inflicting on such slave such punishment as may be necessary for the good government of the same. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundredand fifty-eight, and in the eighty-third year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America. WILLIAM D. PORTER, Presi4nt of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives, No. 4423. AN ACT To nRxPAL AN ACT, ENTITLED AN AcT TO DEFINE THn TIEMS UPON WHICH THE STATE WILL AID I1N THE CONSTRUCTION OF TURNPIKA RoADs, ItATIFIED ON THE NINETEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, IN THE -EAR OP OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-IXGRT. 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 an Act, entitled An Act to define the terms upon which the State will aid in the !werae reads, construction of turnpike roads, ratified on the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thir4-eight, be and the same is hereby repealed. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and*in the eighty-third year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America. WILLIAM D. PORTER, P-esident of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker Bouse of Representativea.

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