An Act to further continue an Act, intituled, “An Act to bring into one Act the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further protection and security, for altering the mode of trial of Slaves charged with capital Offences, for suspending the several Acts and clauses of Acts therein mentioned, and for other purposes.”

WHEREAS an Act, intituled, “An Act to continue and bring into one Act the several laws, relating to slaves, and for giving them further protection and security, for altering the mode of trial of slaves charged with capital offences, for suspending the several Acts and clauses of Acts therein mentioned, and for other purposes,” will shortly expire; and whereas the said Act has been found beneficial, and it is expedient 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 said Islands, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority of the same, That the said Act, and every matter clause and thing therein contained, shall continue and be 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.