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a1or impadied veral acts concerping slaves, free negroes and mulattoes ; an
by i11 act. every penalty incurred, or tb be incurred, by any master or skip
per of a vessel, under the thirtieth, thirty-first, fifty-second an
eighty-fourth sections of that act, m.y be recovered'in the man
net, prescribed by the eighty._ixth e tzon of the same act; ior shal|
Fnrthr p . any thiiig in this section be °cdntr-ded to take away or impair an)
other penaltyimposed by the biefore recited act, except that im.
posed by the sixty-ninth section thereof; or to take away or im-
plair aty penalty imposed by any other act or part of an act in re-
lation to slaves.
Search warni. al. .nld be it further enacted, That, if any person shall make
lo 'ovedfarrutnaay oath before a justice of the peace for any county or corporation,
sline suspcted to that lie has good cause to suspect, and verily believes that a runa-
be harboured. way slave is harbored within said county o,: corporation, such jus.
tice shall thereupon issue a warrant to the person so applyilg for
the same, authorising a search for said slave ; and if such slave
shall be found and apprehenled, he or'she shall be dealt with and
disposed of as is directed by all act, entitled ali act to reduce
into one act, the several acts for apprehending and securing run-
Warrant to uiesig. aways ; provided abays, that all warrants vhich may issue in
nawte play1ntion, virtue of this act, shall designate the plantation or lot, and the
&c. ill wich'l
Search i, to he house or houses, in which the search is intended to be made.
tnwae. , 4. Be it farther enacted, That. whenever the master or owner
flow Inastersor of' any slave shall desire to confine him, in the jail of any county
owners o las poration within this Comnmonwealth; it shall be lawful foi
e ittc any justice of the peace, in such county or corporation, upon Hit
county or corpo. application of such tmaster or owner or his agent, to grant a war-
I tIoa j,,il. rant to the jailor, authorising him to receive such slave into his
custody, and to confine him in said jail ; provided, such jus.
tice be of opinion that such slave may be so confined without pub.
lic inconvenience : it shall thereu )on be lawful for the jailor to
receive such person int;. his custoly, and to keep him in the jail
aforesaid, until he shall be released by lawful authority from his
master or owner, until the public convenience shall require his
Proviso. discharge ; provided, huieL'cr, that no slave socommnitted, shall
be confined, at any time in the same apartment with any free
white person, or with any prisoner charged with a criminal offence,
and that if any injury lt done to the jail, by a'ny slave confined
under the authority of this act, or' any prisoner be aided,! in hiq
escape by any slave so confined, or any injury to the health of the
prisoners he produced by the confinement of such slave, or any
other mischief, public or private, result therefrom, the jailor, owner
or master of the slave, and all other person& concerned, shall be
amenable therefor to public prosecution, and private action, ia h;
same manner, as if this act had never passed. 1' -11 .
~ 5. This act shall commence and be in force frout , aiid' its
passage.
CuI AP'ER 36.-At act concerning renaways, and for the relief oF AbraamM lbisa
and John Tr. itawlins.
(Pased Marsh ,ld, 1894.]
Preamble. Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly by Abra-
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