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An Act to prohibit the owners of ferries and bridges from allowing slaves to cross certain water courses without the permission of their owners. 1839 47 (1839.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0541 and id is 1 raw text is: Ferries ad Bridgea5-Diseased Horses. 47, Bix, to remove any prisoner charged with a criminal offence to the jail of an adjoining county, it shall and may be lawful to remove such prisoner in the manner prescribed by the said act, to any con- venient corporation jail, if any there be in the same, or an adjoin. ing county; and whenever the court of any county or corporation eisoners rmove. shall have ordered the removal, or the rebuilding or the repairs of bls, to repair jailm. its jail, so that it may be necessary and proper, in the opinion of any two justices of the peace of the county, to confine prisoners charged with a criminal offence in some other jail of an adjoining county, or of any corporation in the same or an adjoining county, it shall and may be lawful to commit or remove any such prisoner to the jail of any such county or corporation, in the manner pre- scribed by the before recited act; and the keeper of any jail to which any prisoner or prisoners may be so removed shall be liable to the same duties and penalties for the safe keeping of such prisoners, and be entitled to the same compensation therefor, as for other pri- soners. 2. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof. Commencement. CRAP. 76.-An ACT to prohibit the owners of ferries and bridgesfrom allow- ing slaves to cross certain water courses without the permission of their owners. (Passed March 11, 18.D.) 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That if any owner or Felony to permit keeper of any ferry or bridge across any river or water course sepa- slave, to cross fer- ries or bridges rating this state from any other state, shall knowingly and wilfully without their allow any slave to cross the said rivers or water courses, at any ferry ower's consent. or bridge, without permission in writing, attested by a justice of the peace, or the clerk of the county or corporation in which the owner of the slave may reside, signed by such owner, his or her overseer or agent, or without his or her direction in person, the owner or keeper of such ferry or bridge shall,on conviction thereof in any court having Punilhment. jurisdiction thereof, be deemed guilty of felony, and shall undergo a confinement in the public jail and penitentiary for a term of lot less than two nor more than five years, at the discretion of a jury ; and he shall moreover be liable to the action of the party aggrieved Liable to private for all damages which he may sustain thereby. action. 2. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof. Commencement. CHAP. 77.-An ACT to prevent the spreading by contagion amongst horses the disease called glanders or farcy. (Passed February 13, 1839.) 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That no person shall nforlex with glan- o ders or rarer, not suffer a horse afflicted with the disease called the glanders or farcy permitted to run to run at large, or in any manner to go out of the enclosed grounds at large. of the owner or keeper thereof. And whosoever shall wilfully or Penalty ther-for. negligently so do, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars, one half to the informer and the other half to the commonwealth for the benefit of the literary fund. .2. Be it further enacted, That any justice of the peace of any lagistrato to or. county or corporation within this commonwealth, having sufficient do hore be evidence that a horse affected with the disease called glanders or farcy is running at large therein, or in any manner permitted to go out of the enclosed grounds of the owner or keeper thereof, may, and he is hereby required to order such horse to be killed by a con.

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