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An Act to provide in certain cases, for the disposition of slave acquitted of Felony, on the plea of insanity. 1843-1844 185 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0133 and id is 1 raw text is: 185 SEc. 2. That if any county has not paid over to the Su- perintendant of Public Instruction, as much principal and in- terest as will amount to the sum received by the agent and Trustee charged to said county, the coniptroller shall ascertain the deficiency, and retain the same out of the sum annually dis- tributed to. said county until such principal is paid, and then the comptroller shall hand over the uncollected debts of said fund, belonging to such comity, to the Trustee of said county. SEc. 3. Be it enacled, That the distribution of the inter- D est and uncollected debts, shall be so made as to give the ietribution new coun ties their due proportion to be ascertained in man- ner prescribed in the 13th section of the act of 1840, chap. 38, and other laws upon this subject. SEC. 4. That til Trustees of the respective counties, are hereby authorised to collect said debts, and by the consent of onpromice the county court, may compromise said debts or make any disposition of said debts that the court may direct. ). L. BARRINGER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. M. ANDERSON, Speaker of the Senate. Passed January 26th, 1811. CHAPTER CLX. An act to provide in certain cases, for tho disposition of slaves acquitted of i ulony, on thao plea of insanity. SctIoN 1. Be it enacted b. thc General Assembily of the Siole of Tennrsec, That it shall be the duty of the Keeper of Duty or the the Penitcntiary, to receive from the oflicers of the Lunatic KUepor Asylum, or from the Jailor of any county of this State, any slave that having been heretofore or being hereafter acquit- ted of felony on the pleia of insanity, shall have been or shall be dismissed as cured by the said Trustees of the said Luna- tic Asylum, and that the said Keeper of the Penitentiary shall confine and employ in some menial pursuit, such slave, in the same manner that convicts under his charge are now by direction of. law, confined and compelled to labor, until a release is ordered in the mode hereinafter prescribed. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the comptroller to examine and adjust the claims of the Juilor Jailr of Da of Davidson county, for confining persons of the kind de- vidson o'ty scribed in the preceding section of this act. and that the amount of such claims shall be paid to said Jailor out of any Digitized from Best Copy Available

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