An Act to amend an Act, entituled, An Act to repeal Part of an Act, entituled, An Act for the more effectual Punishment of Crimes committed by Slaves; and to oblige the several Parishes to pay for all Negroes executed in each respective Parish.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Island, entituled, An Act to repeal Part of an Act, entituled, And Act for the more effectual Punishment of Crimes committed by Slaves; and to oblige the several Parishes to pay for all Negroes executed in each respective Parish, passed in One thousand seven hundred and forty, it is among other Things enacted, That in all Cases where any Slave or Slaves shall, from the making of the said Act, be put on his, her, or their Trial, by the Owner or Proprietor of such Slave or Slaves, and shall be executed and valued according to the Direction of the said Act for the more effectual Punishment of Crimes committed by Slaves; that, in all such Cases, the Sum or Sums of Money at which such Slave or Slaves shall be valued, shall be paid by the respective Parish or Parishes wherein such Slave or Slaves shall be so tried, valued, and executed, and not otherwise: And whereas there are in several of the Precincts of this Island Two or more Parishes, which are within the Jurisdiction of the same Magistrates acting under the same Commission, whereby it hath often happened, that slaves, committing Crimes in one Parish, have been tried and executed for the same in another Parish, and have been likewise valued in such other Parish; whereby it hath happened that the Parish in which such Trial, Valuation, and Execution was had, done, and made, hath been greatly burdened: For Remedy whereof, be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this his Majesty's Island; and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the Same, That such Part, and so much of the said first mentioned Act, as is herein before recited, be, and the same is hereby annulled and repealed, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever. 

II. AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all Cases where any Slave or Slaves shall, from the passing of this Act, be put on his or her Trial,  by the Owner or Proprietor of such Slave or Slaves, and shall be valued and executed according to the Direction of the said Act, for the effectual Punishment of Crimes committed by Slaves, such Slave or Slaves shall be paid for by the Parish in which the Crime for which such Slave or Slaves where tired and executed, was committed. 

III. BE it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Slaves that have heretofore been tried, valued, and executed, for Crimes committed in Parishes, other than the Parishes wherein such Slaves were tried, valued, and executed, and have not been already paid for, according to such Valuation, by the Parishes in which they were so tried, valued, and executed, shall be paid for by the Parishes in which the Crime for which such Slaves were tried and executed, was committed; any thing in the said first mentioned Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 

IV. BE it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Part of the said first mentioned Act, not herein repealed, or altered, shall be and remain in full Force and Virtue.

V. AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Copies of this Act shall be sent by the Secretary of this Island to the Custos Rotulorum, and the several Magistrates of every Parish of this Island; the Charge of which Copies shall be paid for by the Honourable Benjamin Hume, Esquire, Commissioner, or the Commissioner for the Time being, out of any Money in his Hands unappropriated.