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of In ACT to amend an Act, cntided an dIc,,to amend the several Laws concernthi
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pai' [Passed January 12th, 1807.1
WHEREAS inconveniences have arisen front the operation of an act, entitled, An act Preamble.
sho amend the several laws concernitng slaves ; for remedy whereof,
w; Section I. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That when any inhabitant oflthis state, Person I
ac. hal'have left or shall eave the ntni , with an intention to return to his or her residence in this state
ihis state, and shall have carried or shall carry with him or her, his or slaves, or any of them ma ofrebrn
wrvery such person shall have the right af bringing back with him or her into this state, such his slaves.
ctjaves, when he or she shall return again into the same.
th' Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That any person, whose land may extend across the boun. Wherel
dary line of' this state, or who cultivates land adjoining upon both sides of the said line, shall tends acrt
have the privilege of warkng and removing his or hr slaves on either side thereof, accord. line, own,
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ing to his or her pleasure;' bat no slave owned in another state, and so to be employed i on each ii
tMis state, shall be sold, or otherwise employed therein. Ad any person, an inhabitant of
this state on the twenty-fifth day of January last, shall also have the right, within six months
tfter the passage ofthis act, of bringing into this state any slaves, and their increase since
that day, whereof he was then and is now, the real owner.i habA
Scc. 3. Any person, an inhabitant of any other state, shall have the privilege of employing ther $t
hisor her slaves in carrying his or her produce to any market, or as travelling servants, in bringpri
this state. market i
Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, are hereby re. ss, &c
pealed. Repealing
Sec. 5. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passiatg thereof. Comment
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C H A P 'ER xiii.
fn ACT concerning the Internal Regulations of the Penitentiary, Ilouse.
(Passed January 20, 1807.]
Section 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That so much of any act or acts as re- Penitentiary kw
quires that a board of inspectors shall be appointed for the government of the Jail.anl Pe. requiringboaro
of inspectora of
nitentiary house, and ascertains their powers and duties ; and so nuch of any act or acts as certainpersons.
empowers the said inspectors, with the Executive and the Attorney General, to form a bogrd, repealed.
with power to prescribe rules for the internal government of the said aill, shall be and the
same are hereby repealed..
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that it shall and maybe lawful for the Governor, by and withIt Certin powers
the advice and consent of Council, from time to time to make and ordain all such rules and re- Utie.
gulations as to them shall seem expedient, for the purchase of materials for the manufactorics
carried on within the Jail and Penitentiary house, and the tools and implements necessary
therein ; for contracting for the clothing and diet of convicts ; for the sale of articles by
them manufactured ; for providing for and enforcing all such punishments by solitary con-
finement, low and coarse diet, or by stripes not exceeding thirty nine, as may be necessary
for punishing offences, disobedience, profane cursing and swearing, indecent behaviour, idle.
ness and other breaches of duty and good order, committed within the Jail and Penitentiary
house by the convicts therein confined ; which rules and regulations so ordained and esta-
bUshed, it shall be the duty of the keeper, his clerks, assistants and turnkeys to obey and
execute.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, that ii addition to tile powers hereby vested in the governor Certsla othe|
and council, it shall and may be lawful for them from time to time to execute any or all of powers granted.
the powers and duties at any time heretofore vested in, or enjoined upon, the mayor of the
city of Richmond, the court of the said city, the inspectors, or the inspectors with the govern.
or and council and the attorney general, whenever the exercise of all or any of tie powers a-
foresaid shall to them appear expedient and necessary for the good government of the Jail
and Penitentiary house.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, that so much of any act or acts of Assembly as allows to the Executive to
keeper of the said Jail any commission or commissions upon the parchase or sale of any ar. contract for diet#
ticle or manufacture, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed: But the governor, with raw mseitsl.c.
the advice of council, may nevertheless contract with the said keeper, or with any other per-
son or persons, for the dict and clothing of the prisonersi for the purchase o materals,
tools and implements, and for the sale of wares and merchandize manufactured within the
said jail, on such terms as to them shall seem most advis.able for the public interest, and from
time to time may make such reasonable allowances, or commissions on the objects aforesaid,
as they shall deem proper.
Sec. S. The said keeper shall com pel every prisoner to perform his daily labour, unless such KUMto com.
prisoner shall have been placed on the list ofinvalids by the physician, whose duty it shall be i prfoner to
to visit the Penitentiary once in every day (Sundays excepted) from the first of July to the ties.
first of November, oncein two days the residue of the year, for the purpose of examining Duties of Phys
the convicts as to their health andlability to work.-scal.
Section 6. The saln'v of the physician appinted by the Executive to visit the Jail or Peni. Phys'n's salary.
tentiary, shall be five hundred dollars, to commence from the first day of January, one thou.
sand eight hundred and seven.
Sec. 7. This act shall commence in force from and after the passing thereof. Commtncetent.
Cl H-APrTE1 XIV.
.4n ACT authorhiqir Si :.v e ,! ..i,11. ?,.U.1Jo to P, , l't4/ a ro!/clon of certain Pub.
ic L a ts /oltMs (om;oumo t/eah, andfJor other purloses.
(iPassed January 7th, 1807.1
WITIEIEA it hath been reprewii ted by S tnuel l'le.is:tnti,j'rnaor, that he hath, ,it a very Preamkto
considera.ie e:lpensejprclared fot r bllcaun i a contttuatim of ta Reviied Code of Laws.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0097&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)