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Title	Year	Location
An Act to inflict further and other Punishments on runaway Slaves, and such as shall entertain them.	1749	Jamaica
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.	1749	Jamaica
An Act to explain Part of an Act, entituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves; and for inflicting further and other Punishment on Persons killing Negroes or Slaves.	1751	Jamaica
An act to empower the justices and vestry of the parish of St. Thomas in the East to allot negroes for making a road from the Sea to the Bath.	1751	Jamaica
An Act for the more effectual preventing the evil Practice of the Owners of Slaves hiring out such Slaves to themselves.	1753	Jamaica
An Act to make the Copy of Tolls of Negroes, or other slaves, Evidences, and to enlarge the Fee to be paid for entering Tolls of Negroes and other Slaves in the Toll-Books of the several Precincts of this Island.	1755	Jamaica
An act to establish the probates of all deeds and conveyances, which have been proved and acknowledged in this island since the second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight, before persons who had been appointed judges under an act entitled “An act to enlarge the jurisdiction of the several inferior courts of common pleas,” and since the repeal thereof, good and valid in that respect only; as also to establish the probates of all deeds and conveyances, taken and acknowledged by justices of assize, good and valid in that respect only; and to establish certain toll-books for the parishes of St. Dorothy and St. Thomas in the Vale, as records.	1760	Jamaica
An Act to make free several negro and mulatto slaves, as a reward for their faithful services in the late rebellion.	1760	Jamaica
An Act to remedy the Evils arising from irregular Assemblies of Slaves, and to prevent their possessing Arms and Ammunition and going from Place to Place without Tickets, and for preventing the Practice of Obeah, and to restrain Overseers from leaving the Estates under their Care on certain Days, and to oblige all Free Negroes, Mulattoes or Indians to register their Names in the Vestry Books of the respective Parishes of this Island, and to carry about them the Certificate and wear the Badge of their Freedom, and to prevent any Captain, Master or Supercargo of any Vessel bringing back Slaves transported off the Island.	1760	Jamaica
An Act to make free a negro slave, named Jack, the property of Peter Thomas, of the parish of Saint Mary, planter, for his faithful services to the public. 19th December, 1761	1761	Jamaica
An Act, to explain and amend an Act, intituled, an Act, to remedy the Evils arising from irregular Assemblies of Slaves, and to prevent their possessing Arms and Ammunition and going from Place to Place without Tickets, and for preventing the Practice of Obeah, and to restrain Overseers from leaving the Estates under their Care on certain Days, and to oblige all Free Negroes, Mulattoes or Indians to register their Names in the Vestry Books of the respective Parishes of this Island, and to carry about them the Certificate and wear the Badge of their Freedom, and to prevent any Captain, Master or Supercargo of any Vessel bringing back Slaves transported off the Island.	1761	Jamaica
An Act for making free a negro man slave, named Jack Pearson, belonging to the estate of William Ricketts, Esq. deceased.	1763	Jamaica
An Act for making free a negro man slave named Cato, belonging to Arthur Forrest, esquire. 9th November, 1764	1764	Jamaica
An Act for making free and rewarding two negro men slaves, the one named York, belonging to the estate of Ballard Beckford, deceased; and the other named Cuffee, belonging to James Charles Sholto Douglas, Esquire, and for paying to their owners their respective values.	1767	Jamaica
An Act for the further regulation of the provost-marshal's proceedings in the sale of negro and other slaves taken by virtue of writs of venditioni exponas.	1768	Jamaica
An act to explain and amend part of an act entitled “An act to encourage colonel Cudjoe and captain Quao, and the several negroes under their command in Trelawny and Crawford Towns, and all other towns of rebellious negroes who submitted to terms, to pursue and take up runaway slaves, and such negroes as continue in rebellion; and for remedying some inconveniences in the laws already made for that purpose	1769	Jamaica
An act for remedying the inconveniencies which may arise from the number of negro huts and houses, built in and about the towns of St. Jago de la Vega, Port-Royal, and Kingston.	1770	Jamaica
An act for making free and rewarding a mulatto man slave named Will, belonging to the estate of William Jones, deceased, and paying to the honourable Archibald Sinclair and Richard Welch, esquires, the representatives of the said William Jones, the value of the said mulatto man.	1772	Jamaica
An ACT for laying an additional Duty on all Negroes imported into this Island.	1774	Jamaica
An act for making free and rewarding a negro woman slave named Attea, the property of the heirs of George Williams, esquire, deceased, and for paying her value.	1774	Jamaica
An ACT for raising several Sums of Money, and applying the same to several uses, for subsisting for One Year the Officers and Soldiers of His Majesty’s Fiftieth and Sixtieth Regiments of Foot, quartered in this Island.	1774	Jamaica
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.	1774	Jamaica
An act for the better regulation of executors and administrators, in the defence of actions or suits brought against them in right of their respective testators or intestates estates; and for other purposes.	1775	Jamaica
An act to regulate the devises of negro, mulatto, and other slaves, in wills.	1775	Jamaica
An act to prevent improper levies being made on the negroes or other slaves of minors; and to regulate the sales of slaves taken on writs against persons who have only an estate for a term of years, or for their own lives, or for the lives of any other persons, in negro or other slaves.	1776	Jamaica

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