An Act to continue in force an Act to prohibit the purchasing, selling, hiring, or employing of certain Foreign Slaves, except as therein excepted, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

WHEREAS the above recited Act will shortly expire; and whereas the provisions thereof have been found of general utility; May it therefore please your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by his excellency John Halkett esquire, your Majesty’s governor and commander in chief, the council and assembly of your Majesty’s Bahama Islands, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Act, and every matter and clause thereof, therein contained, is hereby declared to be in full force and effect from and after the passing of this Act, for and during the term of five years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of the general assembly.