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hired, to satisfy any debt or demand whatever (in which
the said owner is not also bound,) against such hirer or
person having the use of such slave, without the written
consent of the proper owner or agent, any law, practice, or
custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
APPROVED, 9 February, 1850.
[No. 17.1. AN ACT
Providing for the more etfectual prosecuting of persons
trading illegally with slaves.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly
convened, That hereafter on the trial of any person indicted, indicteqnts
for trading with a slave as now provided for by law, it shall to proveoraver
not be necessary, in order to conviction, for the State to
aver or prove who was the master, owner or overseer of
such slave, nor that the leave or consent was not given:
And in all cases proof that the person alledged to be traded
with was of a black or mulatto color shall be held prima
facie evidence that he or she was a slave.
SEc. 2. And be it further enacted, That proof that such
slave was seen going in the night titre, or on the Sabbath, What consid'd
into a place where spirituons liquors or merchandise are deneoforading
usually sold, with an article of traffic, and coming outwithslaves.
without the same, or proof that such slave was seen in the
night time, or on the Sabbath, immediately after coming
out of such place, in possession of any kind of spirituous
liquors, or merchandise, shall be held to be prima facic
evidence of such illegal trading by the keepers of such
place and the persons acting as his or her agents or clerks.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the
solicitor's fee for prosecuting a person convicted of trading
with a slave shall be twenty-five dollars.
APPROVED, 7 Fc'bruary, 1850.
[No. 18.] AN ACT
Authorising the bail of slaves in certain cases.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly Slaves may be
convened, That all slaves shall, before conviction, be bail- bailed.
able, except for capital offencep, when the proof is evident,
or the presumption great.
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