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An Act respecting free negroes and free mulattoes. 1811 408 (1811)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0006 and id is 1 raw text is: LA* WS OF T. UE STAT

CHAP.
cxuIX.               CH APTER CXLIX.
1su.   Ai ACT to authorize the owners and possessors of
the low grounds, near and adjacent to the yellow
branch, in Dagsborough hundkd, in Sussex conn1
ty, to cut a ditch or drain through the same.
PASSED AT DoVER,Z            PriVATEAcf.
January 29i 18 11
CHAPTER CL.
An ACT respecting free negroes andfree milaito4s.
s.E IT ENACTED, by the Senate
.SE. 1 Band flouese of Represenztatives of tke
or feegroe State of Delaware, in General Assembly met, That if
toes, convit-any free negro or free mulatto, free negrdes or free
may be sold rmuhittoes shall, from and after the passing of this
so.     act, feloniously steal, take and carry away any
goods, chattels or effects of any person or persons,.
body politic or corporate, of any value whatever,
and shall be duly convicted thereof before the
court of general quarter sessions of the peace to be
held for the county where sich offenice shall be
committed, he, she or they so offending, in place
and stead of receiving any other punishment, shall
be adjudged to restore the goods, chattels or effects
so stolen to the right owner or owners thereof,
and to pay to the said owner or owners double the
value thereof, or if the said goods, chattels or ef.
fects cannot be found, then the fourfold value
thereof, with the full costs of prosecution, and that
he, she or they be disposed of by the sheriff of the
county as a servant or servants for any term not
less than two years, nor exceeding seven years, for

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