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An Act declaring the punishment of persons of colour, in certain cases. 1823 42 (1823)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0069 and id is 1 raw text is: 48 LAWS DF NORT-CATOLINA. A. D.18t.fht same, That no person excejt triders and deatcra by. profession, and milki's, shall be required' to re-simp and millers their weights and tickaaures'f any law to th contrary to have their notwithstanding. weights and measures re- btamped. CIIAPTER XLIX, An Act to amend an Act passed in the yes oe thousand eight bun- dred and imneteen, eiditled Ai Act ielative to the apprehetisin of runaway slaves.. He it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Persons ap- .Mrth-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the akthiotityUof prehcndin the Suic. That' all persons hereafter, who may appre- inl e outy hend any runaway .lave dr ilavda, within the county in W which hi which tihe owner or owners of such stave or slaves re- owner re- side. and for whoin a gredter reward than three dollars si(1Ct e, shall not have been offered, shall be entitled to recover entitkl to a shalntluebe fee,-salb nidt eoe ollars. ,And rec'ie froim the owner of such slave, the sum of three dollaes, for each and every slave so apprehended 'When Such and delivered to the owner, ot confined in jail. sli ae is 10(g. II . 1nd be it furtherenacted. That wherc any runaway cain fail, the slae or sla Ves thus appreiehcdded, shall he lodged in jail, .lmiler to tai it shall be tie 'duty of the jailer to tax the said reLward thisrewardt of three dollis on each slave, against such owner and and collect it with his pri. collect the same with his prison fe. son fees. 'CHAPTER L. An Act to repeal the forty-fourth section of an Act passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and forty-one, entitled An Act con-, cerning Servants and Slaves. Preamble. Wlhrreas the forty-fiourth section of the act (f one thousiind seven hundred and lorty-one, entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves, is contrary to-good policy and public expediency: therefore, 44th section Be it enacted by the General Asseibly of the State of of the act ofNorth-Carolina, and it islhereby enacted bU the authority of 1741 repdal. the same, That the forty-fourth section of .the above. ed. mentioned act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. CHAPTER LI. An Act declaring the punishment of persons of colour, in certain cases. Ai Assault t Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of commit a t.orth-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of yape on a - the same, That any person of colour, convicted by due, white wo- cbnrse of law, of an assault with intent to commit a rape man, to be upon the body of a white female, shall suffer death with- punished o With death. out the benefit of clergy.

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