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An Act to authorize the sale of certain Slaves now in the Penitentiary. 1863 54 (1863.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0829 and id is 1 raw text is: 654 OHAIJGES' 1VN-CODE.' IAablllay of le. ' § 59, ;If the fire from which any such damage occurred was specter causet by an insp leor pcrinittiig auy bther poison to use or occupy the warehouse, or aiy-part of it, or by the fieflet or voluntary not of said inspector, Io and his sureties shall be liable to the owners of any tobacco damaged by such fire for the amount of their damages.' t, onmeneememt 3. This act shall be in force from and on the first day of April eighteen hundred and sixty-four. CHAP. U3.-An AC'T to authorize the sale of certain Slaves now In the Penitentiary. Passed February 10, 1864. Code ti~nuided 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the twentieth seo- tion (f the seventeenth chapter of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty) be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Slave, ihow soid § 20. In the case of a slave condemned to death, the governor may order a commutation of the punishment, by directing that such slave be sold at public auction, to be trans)orted beyond the limits -of the Confederate States. The governor shall cause hii to be sold, and the purchaser, before dtelivry to him of the slave, shall pay into the treasury the'price agreed, and enter into bond, approved by the governor, in the penalty of one thousand dollars, conditioned that the slave shall within three months be transported beyond the limits of the Confederato States, and shall never afterwards return into this Fmrnl,' ip,.v state: provided, however, that in the ease of anyfemnale slave heretofore and chilire,, or hereafter convicted of any offence other than arson or a crime against how old a white person, which in the case of a free negro would have been Funishable with death, such female slave, and the children of any 'inale slave convict born after conviction, may' he caused by the governor to be sold at public auction unconditionally, and without requiring bond as aforesaid. Comne.c, e.nt . This act shall be in force front its passage. CIIAm. 64.-An ACT amending and re-enacting the Ist section of chapter 214 (Code of 1860), so as to provide for the punishment of Free Negro Convicts in certain cases. Passed February 23,1864. Code amondedl 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that section first, chap. ter two hundred and fourteen of the Code (edition of eighteen hun- dred and sixty)'be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows : What diem,ei § 1. A convict confined in the penitentiary, or in custody of an felony officer, thereof, 'shall be deemed guilty of felony, if he shall hill, wound, or inflict other bodily injury upon an officer or guard of the, penitentiary, or shall escape froni the penitentiary or such custody; or who shlill escape from the custody of nny party who may have hired said convict, when a free negro, or from the agent of such part or shall break, cut or injure any building, fixture or fastening of t O penitentiary, or any part thereof, for the purpose of escatping, or aid- ing any other convIct, to esca e therefrom, or rendering the Imniten- tiary less secure as a place of confinement; or shall make, procure, secrete, or have in his possessicii any instrument, tool or thing for the said purpose, or with intent to kill, wound or inflict bodily injury as aforesaid; or shall resist the lawful authority of an officer or guard of the penitentiary, for the said purpose or with such intent. CemUIncement 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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