An Act to revive and continue for a further limited Time an Act, intituled, “An Act to revive for a limited Time an Act, intituled, An Act for the suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves, and for preventing Slaves from being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for enabling the Commander in Chief, or President of the Council (for the Time being) to send out Detachments of Free Mulattoes, Free Negroes, and other Free Persons, being Male Descendants of Negroes, in Pursuit of Runaway Slaves.”

Whereas an Act, intituled, “An Act to revive for a limited Time an Act, intituled, An Act for the suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves, and for preventing Slaves from being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for enabling the Commander in Chief, or President of the Council (for the Time being) to send out Detachments of Free Mulattoes, Free Negroes, and other Free Persons, being Male Descendants of Negroes, in Pursuit of Runaway Slaves,” is, by the Term of its own Limitation, expired: And whereas it is expedient to revive and continue, for a further limited Time, the said Act: We therefore, Your Majesty’s most dutiful, loyal, and obedient Subjects, the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Your Island of Dominica, pray Your Most Excellent Majesty, That it may be Enacted and Ordained;

[Clause I.] And be it, and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same, That the said Act, intituled, “An Act to revive, for a limited Time, an Act, intituled, An Act for the suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves, and for preventing Slaves from being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for enabling the Commander in Chief, or President of the Council (for the Time being) to send out Detachments of Free Mulattoes, Free Negroes, and other Free Persons, being Male Descendants of Negroes, in Pursuit of Runaway Slaves,” shall be, and the same is hereby revived, and shall be and continue in Force for the Space of One Year from and after the Publication of this Act, and from thence until Thirty Days after the next Meeting of the Council and Assembly of this Island.

Passed the Council in the Council Chamber, this Sixteenth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty-seven.

GRIFFIN CURTIS, Clerk of the Council. ALEX. STEWART, President of the Council.

Passed the House of Assembly, this Sixteenth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty-seven.

THOS BEECH, Junr, Clerk of the Assembly. THOS BEECH,  Speaker.

Assented to this Seventeenth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty-seven, and in the Twenty-seventh Year of His Majesty’s Reign.

J. (Great Seal.) ORDE. 

Duly published in the Town of Roseau, this Nineteenth Day of March, One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty-seven, and in the Twenty-seventh year of His Majesty’s Reign.

WM PAGAN, D.P.M.

Recorded and examined this 19th of March 1787.