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An Act providing additional protection for the slave property of citizens of this commonwealth. 1855 38 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0710 and id is 1 raw text is: SLAVES AND FREE NEOROES. Petition to be 2. When any freo person as aforesaid desires to choose a master, such fled. person shall file a petition in the circuit court of the county or corpora- Whit to contain, tion in which such free person of color resides, setting forth his desire to choose an owner, and setting forth the name of such person as he or she desires to select as an owner; which petition shall ho signed by such free person of color in the presence of at least two subscribing witnesses. Notieof pll. 3. The court in which such petition shall have been filed shall, upon don to be Posted- the filing of said petition, order a notice that such petition has been filed, to be forthwith posted by the clerk of said court, at the front door of the court-house, for one month. Said court shall cause to be sum- moned, to appear at its succeeding term, both the petitioner and the person so designated in said petition. Parties to be 4. Upon the appearance of both the petitioner and the person dcsig- examined. nated in the petition, the court shall proceed to examine each party selarately, as well as such other persons as said court may see fit. At such examination the attorney for the commonwealth shall be present, and see that such oxaminatiou is properly conducted, and that to injus- tico is done to the petiotter. When court may 5. If, upon such examination, the court shall hi satisfied that thore'is grantpetition. no fraud nor collusion between the parties, nod that there is no good reason to the contrary, the said court shall have power to grant the value of inegr prayer of the petitioner. And if it determine so to do, the court shall to be naeertantrd. proceed to ascertain what would he the value of the petitioner, if he or Mfaq.er to pay she wcre a slave; and if the individual chosen as master shall thereupon alf thereof, pay into court one-half of such valuation, and enter into bond with n - is lindt and paIno or penalty. n ,roved security, in such penalty as the court shall prescribe, with condi- tion that said negro shall not become chargeable to any county or corpo- ration in the commonwellih, such valtiation, nayment and execution of bond, with the names of the petitioner and master, shall be entered of record, and the liroperty in said negro, as a slave, shall, from the time of such entry, vest in the person chosen as master, and his rights and liabi- litics and the condition of the petitioner shall in all respects he the same as though such negro had been born a slave. Costs, by whom 6. The costs of the proceedings shall he paid by the mnster, and the pahi, nnd how clerk of the curt shall, within sixty days after the paymct of thu disposed of. money required by this act into court, pay the same into the public tron- sury, after deducting therefrom such commission as is allowed to collec- tors of the public revenue. But the children of any such female fr-ce person of color, born prior to such term, shall not he deemed to be re- duced to slavery by such proceedliug. Commencement 7. This act shall ho in force from its passage. CHAP. 47.-An ACT providing additional protection for the slave property of citizens of this conmontwealth. Passed blarch 17, 1856. Vessels depart. 1. Ile it enacted by the geuer:il assembly, that it shall not be lawful Ing from waters for any vessel of any size or desEription whatever, owned in whole or othis statet in part by any citizen or resident of another state, and about to sail or. I stenan from any port or place in this state for any port or place north of and beyond the capes of Virginia, to depart from the waters of this com- monwealth until said vessel has undergone the inspection herein after Pen oIt for viola. provided for in this act, and received a certificate to that effect. If any tion ei tisl such vessel shall depa-t from this state without such certificate of inspec- requirement. tion, the captain or owner thereof shall frofeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to 1e recovered by any person who vill sue for the same in any court of record in this state, in the name of the governor of the vessel to be re. commonwealth. Pcnding said suit, the vessel of such captain or owner rained pendling shall not leave the state until bond he given by the captain or owner, or the suit for fine until bond be other p~tsmn for bun, payable to the governor, with two or more sure- given. ties, satisfactory to tile court, in the penalty of one thousand dollars, for the payment of the forfeit or fine, together with the costs aind expenses incurred in enforcing the same ; atd ill default of such bond, the vessel

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