AN ACT to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act to establish a Triennial Registration of Slaves in the Bahama Islands.”

WHEREAS it is expedient that an act passed in the second year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to establish a Triennial Registration of Slaves in the Bahama Islands,” should be amended; be it enacted by this Excellency Lewis Grant, esquire, Major-general of His Majesty’s forces, Captain-general and Governor-in-chief in and over these islands, the Council and Assembly in and for the same; [Clause 1] and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that in case of the birth of any slave or slaves within these islands, or of the arrival in or importation into the same of any slave or slaves, between any two of the triennial returns provided for by the act to which this act is an amendment, all such slaves so born or arriving in or imported in the islands may, at the discretion of the owner of such slave or slaves, or others having charge or possession of the same, be registered in the office of the register of slaves at any time previous to the then next ensuing general registration of slaves, anything contained in the said act to which this act is an amendment to the contrary notwithstanding; and all returns of slaves in virtue of this act as aforesaid shall be made and received, and by the register registered according to the form as nearly as may be of the schedule marked (A.) annexed to the said act to which this act is an amendment, and under the same liabilities, pains and penalties provided in and by the said hereby amended act in the case of false returns and of wilful and corrupt perjury in making such false returns, knowing them to be such.

[Clause 2] And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that this act shall be and continue in force for and during the continuance of the act to which this act is an amendment, and no longer.

Passed 28th January 1823.