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Of certain offences by free negroes and mulattoes. 1847 126 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0630 and id is 1 raw text is: 126 Offences by Free Negroes. Aeparlngorna- 12. Any slave who shall sell or attempt to sell, or prepare or ad. ministerlag ma- minister any medicine, except under the direction of his master or manager, shall be punished by stripes not exceeding thirty-nine. Preaehlsg or con- 13. Any slave who shall preach, exhort or conduct any meeting duelingsmcc for religious or other purposes, shall for every such offence be pun. ished by stripes not exceeding thirty-nine. Mlsdemnennorsby 14. Any slave who shall commit any offence, the commission sleves, howi Pun- Ihoed. whereof by a free person is punishable as a misdemeanor, shall be punisled by stripes not exceeding thirty-nine at any one time. Felonies and 15. Oflnces committed by slaves shall be felonies or misdemea. milsdemeanors deunned. nors. Those shall be felonies which are punishable with death, or which if committed by free persons would be punishable by death or confinement in the penitentiary. All other offences shall be mis. demeanors. CHAP. XIII. OF CERTAIN OFENCHI. BY FREB NEGROES AND MULATTOES. SECTION SECTION 1. Rape, or abuse of female child; 3. Delivering register of frecdom to abduction of females, and attempt slaves. to commit rape, &e. 4. Provoking language ; furnishing 2. Conspiracy to murder a white per- pass to slave; keeping fire arims, son. &c. riot,rout,&c.; conducting meetings, &c. npe; nbuir of 1. Any free negro or mulatto who shall commit any offence men. duc (infA-b- tioned in the fifteenth and sixteenth sections of the third chapter, or males attempt in the fourth section of the twelfth chapter of this act, shall be pull to coflnt 'Bile, ished with death, or, at the discretion of the jury, by confinement in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than twenty years. Conpirary to 2. Any free negro or mulatto who shall plot or conspire the mur. nurderwbl o der of a white person, or shall maliciously assault and beat a white I'o assnitll n person with intent to kill, shall be punished with death, or at the dis- Intent to kill. cretion of the jury, by confinement in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than ten years. Delivering regig- 3. Any free negro or mulatto wile shall deliver to a slave a copy ter of freeAlorn to slave of the register of his freedom on any pretext whatever, shall be pun. ished by confinement in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years. Provoking Ian- 4. Any free negro or mulatto who shall commit any offence men. rtne;turrif sh--- ug o; keni,. tioned in the sixth, eighth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth see- Ing arms; riot, tions of the twelfth chapter of this act, shall be punished in the man- unlawfel assent- ilies, preaching nor therein prescribed for the commission of such offences by slaves. and conducting nlectlig,.

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