An act to ascertain who shall be deemed duly qualified to vote for choosing churchwardens and vestrymen of the several parishes of this island; to protect freeholders on the days of holding such elections, and magistrates, vestrymen, and clerks of the vestry, on the days appointed for parochial business; and to regulate certain other parochial proceedings.

           

Enacts, Clause 10.--- “That it shall not be lawful for any collecting constable to distrain on any slave, where any other distress can or may be had.”

           

Clause 21.--- “That the churchwarden or churchwardens of each and every parish of this island shall cause to be recorded in the secretary’s office of this island every security bond, which shall be entered into and delivered to him or them, pursuant to an act, passed in the fifteenth year of his present majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for regulating the manumission of negro, mulatto, and other slaves; and to oblige the owners to make a provision for them during their lives, by any person or persons manumizing any slave or slaves; and such churchwarden or churchwardens is and are, hereby, empowered and directed to refuse to sign any certificate of such security having been given, unless such bonds, when tendered to them, are duly proved, and the expence of recording them be at the same time fully paid to him or them.”