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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0531 and id is 1 raw text is: '76 Free Negroes.-Burning in Hand.-Concealed Weapons.
CHAP. 99.-An ACT to prevent free pbraons of colour who leave the state
from returning to it in certain cases.
( 'ased April 7, 138. )
lea noto he 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That if any free per-
lear- son of colour, whether infant or adult, shall go or be sent or carried
mlttedtoreturn. beyond the limits or this commonwealth for the purpose of being
educated, he or she shall be deemed to have emigrated from the
state, and it shall not be lawful for him or her to return to the same;
Infants so return- and if any such person shall return within the limits of the state con-
inf howv dea~t
w th. trary to the provisions of this net, lie or she being an infant, shall
be bound out its an apprentice until the age of twenty-one years,
by the overseers of the poor of the county or corporation where he
or she may be, a,ad at the expiration of that period, shall be sent
out of the state agreeably to the provisions of the laws now in force,
or which may hereafter be enacted to prohibit the migration of free
Adults hot pun. persons of colour to this state; and if such person be an adult, he
luhed. or she shall be sent in like manner out of the commonwealth ; and
if any person having been so sent off, shall thereafter return within
the state, lie or she so offending shall be dealt with and punished
in the same manner as is or may be prescribed by law in relation
to other persons of colour returning to the state after having been
sent therefrom.
Commencement. 2. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of August
next.
CHAP. 100.-An ACT abolishing the punishment of burning in the hand in all
casefl.
(Passed Pebruary 8, 1838)
Burnlng in hand 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That so much of any
abolished. law of this commonwealth as authorizes or inflicts the punishment
of burning in the hand in any case whatever, shall be, and the
same is hereby repealed. And every person who may be hereafter
convicted of any offence within the benefit of clergy, shall be
punished in the mode now prescribed by law, except only the burn-
inog in the hand.
-Commencement. 2. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
CHAP. 101.-An ACT to prevent the carrying of concealed weapons.
[tssed Pebruary 2, 1838.]
Penalty ror carry. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That if any person
ing concealed
'Weapons. shall hereafter habitually or generally keep or carry about his per-
son any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, or any other weapon of the like
kind, from the use of which the death of any person might proba-
bly ensue, and the same be hidden or concealed from common ob-
servation, and he be thereof convicted, lie shall for every such of-
fence forfeit and pay the sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the commnn jail for
a term not less than one month nor more than six months, and in
each instance at the discretion of the jury; and a moiety of the pe-
nalty recovered in any prosecution under this act, shall be given to
any person who may voluntarily institute the same.
Court, to ater. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall hereafter
la'h ir muOers or be examined in any county or corporation court upon a charge of
trated by conceal. murder or felony, perpetrated by shooting, stabbing, maiming, cut-
cd wopon. n
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