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An Act to repeal so much of the forty-eighth section of the act now in force in the state, as provides for the trial of slaves for capital offences, and directing the mode of trial in future. 1815 175 (1815)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0025 and id is 1 raw text is: 17 5 Be it 'enated by the General Assembly. oj the .state of Tennessee, That fr6m and after the passage of this act, the court of pleas and uarter sessions held for the counties of Rutherford, 1Iaury and Grainger shall continue for the space of two weeks if the justices composing said. courts should think it necessary,,. unless. the business therein should be sooner disposed of. JAMES FENTRESS, Sbeaker of the House of Representatives. EDWARD WARD, Speaker of the Senate. Nov. 14th, 1815. ClHAP. CXXXVIII. An nct to repeal so much of-the forty-eiglith section of an act now in foree in this state, as provides for the trial of sives for Capital offences, Ind directing the niode_ oftrial in future. Sec. 1. Be it enactedbU the General Assenbh; or the state.. of Tennesece, That when any slave is to be tried in pursu. ance of the mode required by the forty-eighth section T;iaI of of an act of the General Assembly of the state of North elaves Carolina, passed in the year 1741, entitled an act concer- ning servants and slaves, the justice issuing the precept shall cause the sheriff O the county where the offence nmay have been committed, to summon three justices of the peace of said county, and nine freeholders or slive-bolders, residents of the same county, which said three justices and. nine freeholders or slave-holders are hereby required and empowered upon oath to try all manner of crimes and offen- ces that shall or may be committed by any slave or-slaves, and to take for evidence the confEssion of the off':nder. the oath of one or more credible witnesses, or such testimony of negroes, mulattoes or indians, bond or free, with preg- nant circumstances, as to them shall seem convincing ; and Sthe offender being then found guilty, the said threejusticev Digitized from Best Copy Available

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