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An Act to regulate Contracts for Labor between White and Colored Persons, and to impose a Fine on Persons enticing Laborers from the service of their Employers under such Contracts. 1865 83 (1865.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0846 and id is 1 raw text is: CONTRACTS),H ET.-BIGAMY, ETC. ChAP. 16.-An ACT to regulate Contracts for Labor between White and Colored Persons, and to impose a Fine on Persons enticing Laborers friom the service of their Employers under such Contracts. Paissed February 20, 1800. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That no contract Contracts be. tween white and between a white person and a colored person, for the labor colored person or service of the latter for a longer period than two months, for labor shall be binding on such colored person, unless the contract be in writing, signed by such white person, or his agent, and by such colored person, and duly acknowledged before a jus- How acknow- tice, or notary public, or clerk of the county or corporation edged court, or overseer of the poor, or two or more credible wit- nesses, in tile county or corporation in which the wlite per- son may reside, or in which the labor or service is to be performed. And it shall be the duty of tile justice, notary, Certficate, clerk or overseer of the poor, or the witnesses, to read and what stated explain the contract to the colored person, before taking his acknowledgment thereof. and to state that this has been done in the certificato of the acknowledgment of the contract. 2. If any person shall entice away, from the service of an- rPnlimcnt for other, any laborer employed by him under a contract, as eitltInhg away provided by this act, knowing of tile existence of such con- tract, or shall knowingly employ a laborer bound to service to another under such contract, lie shall forfeit to the party aggrieved not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars for every such offence; to be recovered by warn, ,t before any justice of the peace. 3. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of Cominnencelient April, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the first section slall not apply to any contract made prior to that date. CuAr. 16.-An ACT to aliend ad re-enact sections 1, 8, 5, 7 and 15 of chapter 196 of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in regard to UnIawful Marriages. 1' sed February 27, 1811. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections clil. 1 6, 1 , one, three, five, seven nid fifteen of chapter one hundred and ninety-six of the Code of Virginia for eighteen hundred and sixty be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, to wit: 1. Any person who, being married, shall, during the (Ir tiQ Crime of life of the former lusband or wife, marry a-,other person in , this state, or if the marriage with such other perpnl take place out of the state, shall thereafter cohabit with su(:h other fperson in this state, shall be confined in the penitentiary not ess than three nor more than eight years. 3. If' any person marry, in violation of the Iinth or ,)r 011, tenth sections of' chalter one hundred and eight, lie sh1all be Ilth, ,,rIl,, logree (if coil. mileigililly

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