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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0346 and id is 1 raw text is: so Inthe fory.uisht year 6f the Commonwealth.
brick, plank or some other substantial enclosure ; that he shall
Also for putting also, put and keep in order for lie chancery court to sit in during
stil iecingin or. the said term, the larga room in the upper story of the old capitol|
tier, a room for tuunraecoue
thechance)-. in the said city, an put under a like substantial enclosure the
cou.rt to sit'in; or ground around the said capitol, following the old brick wall which
enclosingthe t formerly was run ; and that he, the said Banks, shall, at the ex-
od .., . piration of the said term, deliver up, to such public officer or agent
old capito,&c. as the executive shall appoint to receive the same, the tenement
and enclosures aforesaid, in good, tenantable anti substantial re-
pair, barring imikuries by unavoidable accidents or disasters. And
Remedy aainst if the said Banks shall not have complied with tile condition of
him for faling to the said bond at the end of tile said term, the executive shall
cornly with C(iio
d in of .aid cause the sameto be put in suit,for the benefitof the Comnmonwealth,
bond. in the general court ; and such recovery in damuages shall be had,
for breach of the said condition, as a jury shall assess. The said
ne may use as a William T. Banks shall be permitted, during the said term, to
gardenrund 20 use as a garden, the ground enclosed as aforesaid, around the old
e.lo.e, ro,und
the old c.ptol. capitol.
Fower reserved 2. Proided alwits, That the Legislature may at any time,
totheLgislature. when they shaII thik the public service requires it, resume the
grant herein contained ; upon making to the said William T.
Banks, reasonable compensation for any repairs and enclosures lie
may have made.
Commencement. S. This act shall take effect from the passage thereof.
CHfAPTE.R 34.i-An act to amend an act, entitled, an act to reducre into on!e
act, tie ,everal acts eonceriing slaves, free ngroes alnd mulattoes, and for other
jitirfposes.
[Passed March Sil,, 1824.]
flow slares eon- 1. Be it enncted b'y the (eneral .1,sembly, That, whenever a
demn.dto lie e. slave, condemned to be executed, shall have made his or her es.
ecuted. 'a[in shall
ciave te, sal cape from tail, before the day appointed for his or her execution,
f o, jail beture and shall tave been afterwards retaken, it shall be the duty of
day oF execution, the jailor of the county or corporation, by whose court the said
od been retaken, slave shall have been condemned, on receiving hill% or her into his
ahstli be itktifncI. ' .e
custody, forthwith to give notice to a justice of the peace for
said county or corporatiin, who shall issue his warrant, directed
to the sheriff' or sergeant thereof, to summon a court, in like mant-
ner as is prescribed by law for the trial of slaves charged with
Sentence of for. felony, for the purpose of identifying such criminal ; aiid, upon
co.rt to be such identity being proven, to carry into effect the sentence of
carried into effe. the former court. The court, thus summoned, shall order such
further day for tl.e execution of the said convict, as to them shall
1rvwision in case seen, proper; and, if the said court shall fail to meet, such prQ-
tile411,1t slim. ceedings shall be had, concerning the proof of the said convict's
mon.ed, i(RD to identity, and the appointment of a day for his or her execution,
meeUt at the next term of the county or corporation court aforesaid, as
would have been proper anti legal at the court summoned as
Proceeding may herein-before directed. Such court shall have power to adjourn
be adjourned the proceedings aforesaid, from term to term, for good cause
1omm term to shewn.
ferm. And, whereas doubts have arisen as to the disposition which
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