An Act to continue an Act passed in the forty-fifth year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for trying Questions relative to the Freedom of Negroes and other persons of Colour, and for suspending certain acts therein mentioned.”

WHEREAS an Act passed in the forty-fifth year of His Majesty’s reign intituled, “An Act for trying questions relative to the freedom of negroes and other persons of colour, and for suspending certain acts therein mentioned,” is about to expire; and whereas it is expedient that the same be further continued; May it therefore please your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by his excellency Charles Cameron, esquire, your Majesty’s captain general and governor in chief, the council and assembly of the Bahama Islands, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the above recited act, and every clause, provision, matter and thing therein contained, shall be and the same are hereby continued in force, from and after the passing of this act, for and during the term of seven years and from thence to the end of the then next session of the general assembly.