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An Act to increase the compensation to owners of slaves executed. 1858 742 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0423 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 1858. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT CONCERNING THE LUNATIC ASYLUM, No. 4430. PASSED IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE. 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 from and after the passage of this Act, that for the support of each pauper lunatic, idiot or epileptic, now in the Asylum, or hereafter to be sent, there Charge forpan- shall be paid to the Regents of the Asylum the sum of one hundred and thirty-five dollars per annum in lieu of the sum heretofore payable. 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, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives. No. 4431. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE COMPENSATION TO OWNERS OF SLAVES EXECUTED. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Refresentatives, now anet and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That in case any slave shall be put to death, in pursuance of the sentence of a Court of Magistrates and Freeholders within this State, the Court imposing such sentence, or a majority of them, shall, before they order the'sentence to be Tobeapprai-d executed, appraise any such slave at any sum not exceeding one-half of the full value thereof, and shall certify such appraisement to the Treasurer of the Division within which such proceedings may be had, who shall be authorized and required to pay the same to the owner of such slave. 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, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives. 742

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