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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0191 and id is 1 raw text is: MISCELLANEOUS. CUAP. 538. 115
vertising, and all other expenses attending the trial men. 1852.
tioned ii the last preceding section, shall be paid by the xpenus;es
person or persons who shall enter a claim as the owner or
owners thlreof.
[Pasusil the Ifouse of Representatives, December 10, 1852. Passed the Son-
atth December 23,1852. Approved by the Governor, January 3, 1853.]
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CHAPTERI 538.-[No. 59.]
AN ACT to prevent the trading with the Indians in this State.
SE.TION 1. Bo it enacted by th, Sd fato and iouse of
1iel)rewentativc8 of the ,Sate of .Florida in Generat A-
,embly conveaed, That from and after the first day of
April next, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons
to sell, barter, give, loan, or in any manner furnish to any
of the Indians now remainin, within the limits of this
State, or to any negro belonging to or residing with said
Indians, any spirituous liquors, powder, lead, or any goods, Indiaus,
wares, or merchandise of any description. lawful trading
Sxc. 2. Lo it further enacted, That from. and after the vith.
first day of April next, it shall not be lawful fbr any per-
so or persons to purchase frotm the said Indians or negroes
either with cash, promises, goods, wares, or merchandise
of their produce, either of skins, hides, beeswax, horses,
cattle, hogs or any manufactured articles.
SEc. 3. Be itjurther enacted, That any person or per- Pimishmget
sons violating the provisions of this act, shall be subject to
fine not less than five hundred dollars and imprisonment
not less than six months, at tie discretion of the jury, and
shall moreover be disqualified from exercising or holding
any oflice of profit or trust in this State or serving as jurors.
Skc. 4. Be it farther enacted, That any [person or per- In.c.b.
,ons making] gift, sale, barter or furnshing spirituous li- When
quors, powder, lead, goods, wares and merchandise to any
of the aforesaid Indians or ne.roes within the limits now
allowed or allotted to the Indians, contrary to tle true in-
tent and meaning of this act, shall be indictable before the
Circuit Court of any County of the State, as may be most
;convenient to the parties, under the same rules. and regu-
lations as are now provided by law in other cases : Pio-
vtded, however, That the trading with Indians as contem- Proviso.
plated by the provisions of thl foregoing sections, slall
not preveit any of the half breeds or persons desceinding
from Indian mothers now residing among the whites, fromn
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