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An Act respecting partition and assignment of dower in slaves. 1836 60 (1836)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0025 and id is 1 raw text is: COURTS-URIMES-DOVER. AN ACT supplecental and amendatory to an act, entitled An act to establish judicial districts and circuits, and to prescribe the times and places of holding courts, approved, Jan. 21st, 1837. Criminal courts in St. Louis, when held. Be it enactcd by the General ./1ssembly of 1w State of Missoitri, as follows: § 1. That so much of the act, to which this is supplemental and amonda- tory, as prescribes the time of holding coun ts for the transaction of criminal business in St. Louis county, be,and the same is herchy repealhd; and the said courts shall be held on the third Monlays of January, May, and September. This act to take effect and be in force fromn and after its passage. APPROVED, Feb. 6, 1837. CRIMES. A. ACT amendatory to an act concerning crimes and punishments. SRcenoN SECTION Sections 31-2-3-4 Ar. 9, crim. Jaw repealedI 1 Sla es to be curried out of the State. . 3 Slaves, how punished. 2 Be it enacted by the Gcneral Issembly of the State of Jllissouri, as follows: § 1. That the thirty-first, thirty-second, thirty-third, and tLirty-fourth sec- tions of the ninth Article of an act concerning crines and punishments, ap- proved, March 20th, 1825, he, and the same is hereby repealed. § 2. When any slave shall hereafter he convicted of a felony, the court before whom such conviction is had, shall sentence tihe offender to receive on his bare back any nunber of lashes, not exceeding thirty-nine. § :3. Any slave, ont conviction of a felony, if it be of such a nature, in the opinion of the court, that it is not safe that such slave should stay in the State, the court shall compel the master or owner of such slave, to pay all costs which may accrue in the trial of said slave, and the owner shall enter into bond to the State in the stum of five hundred dollars, with one or more securi-\ ties, to be approved by the court, condi ioned that such slave le taken or sent out of the State within sixty days, and shall not return to the State for twen- ty years thereafter, without lawhul permission. This act to take effect and be in force front anti after its passage. APPROVED, Feb. 6, 1836. DOWER. AN ACT respecting partition and assignment of dower in slaves. SEcro'0 SaCTION County couttgay make partition of sla es. I Commissioners shall report. . . I And may assign to widow her dower in sinvs. ib Notice to executors and administrators, &c. . ib Or may appojut comniss'ss for said purpose. ib 60)

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