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 expire; and whereas it is expedient and necessary that the same should be further continued; may it therefore please your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by his honour William Vesey Munnings, esquire, president 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 clause and thing therein contained, shall be and the same are hereby continued in full force, from and after the passing of this Act, for and during the term of ten years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of general assembly, and no longer.