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An Act more effectually to prevent the owners of steam boats and stages from carrying off slaves, without the knowledge or consent of the owners. 1833 2 (1833)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0105 and id is 1 raw text is: 2 CHAPTER II. An Act to amend the act of 1827, chapter 20, entitled an act more amply to provide for the poor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ten- nessee, That where any person or persons shall hereafter die, leaving a wife, or a wife and children, or absconds and leaves his family, that then, and in that case, the arti- cles and property now exempt, or which may hereafter be exempt by law from execution sale, shall and may be set apart for the use of the widow, or wife, in the same manner, and to the same extent, that said property is now exempt from execution where the husband is living. F. W. HULING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. D.BURFORD, Speaker of the Senate. Passed September 25, 1833. CHAPTER III. An Act more effectually to prevent the owners of steam boats and sta- ges from carrying off slaves, without the knowledge or consent of the owners. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That hereafter, no stage contractor or driver, or owner, or captain of aby steam boat or other Clerk togive water craft, shall receive and carry from any place in this certificat' of State, to any other place, either in or out of the State, freedom. any black or coloured person, unless said coloured person shall produce the certificate of the clerk of the court of the county from which said stage or steam boat is about to depart; which certificate shall be under the seal of said court, stating that the said clerk has known said coloured person, and that he or she is free, or has generally been reputed to be free, or that it has been proved to him by Authority or respectable witnesses known to him, (whom he is hereby *lave owner. authorised to swear,) that said coloured person is free, or generally reputed so; or if said coloured person be actually a slave, then and in that case a verbal or written authority from the owner or owners, shall be sufficient. SEc. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when Penalty any stage contractor or driver, or owner or captain of any steam boat or other water craft, or any other person or per- sons, shall violate the provisions of the first section of this act, then, andin that case, they, or either of them, shall be subject to indictment or presentment, without a prosecutor thereto, in the county or the circuit court of the county in which Digitized from Best Copy Available

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