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An Act for the better governing of Negroes; and the more effectual preventing the inhabitants of this island, from employing their Negroes or other Slaves, in selling or bartering.	1733	Barbados
An act to prevent hawking and pedling and disposing of goods clandestinely.	1735	Jamaica
An Act for the further Restriction of Slaves, by prohibiting them from planting any Indigo, Cotton, Ginger, Coffee, or Cocoa, and from keeping a public Market on Sundays, and for further restraining licentious Meetings of Negroes.	1736	Montserrat
An act to prevent the abuses committed by entertaining, concealing, or carrying off, any of his majesty’s soldiers, any white men or women servants, or slaves, belonging to any of the inhabitants of this island, without tickets; and for the better regulating servants and deciding difference between masters and servants.	1736	Jamaica
An act for the more effectual directing the marshal’s proceedings, and regulating thereof.	1736	Jamaica
An Act for confirming the Articles executed by Colonel John Guthrie, Lieutenant Francis Sadler, and Cudjoe the Commander of the Rebels; for paying Rewards for taking up and restoring runaway Slaves, and making Provision for four white Persons, residing, or to reside at Trelawney Town; and for granting Freedom to Five Negroes who were Guides to Parties.	1739	Jamaica
An Act for amending an Act of this Island, entitled an Act for the Governing of Negroes, and for providing a proper Maintenance and Support for such Negroes, Indians, or Mulattoes as shall be hereafter manumitted or set free, and also for preventing certain Inconveniences from them arising to the Inhabitants of this Island.	1739	Barbados
An Act for confirming the Articles executed by Colonel Robert Bennett, and Quao the Commander of the Rebels, for paying Rewards for taking up and restoring runaway Slaves, and making Provision for four White Persons to reside at Crawford's Town, and New Nanny Town, and for granting Freedom to two Negroes who were Guides to Colonel Bennett.	1740	Jamaica
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.	1740	Jamaica
An act for recovering and extending the trade with the Indian settlements in America and preventing for the future some evil practices formerly committed in that trade.	1744	Jamaica
An Act to regulate the selling of Gun-powder, and to prevent the selling of Fire-arms to Slaves.	1744	Jamaica
An Act to explain and amend an Act, entituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves; and for making free and rewarding a Negroe named Hector, belonging to Thomas Fuller, Esq. and paying his said Master the Value of the said Negroe.	1744	Jamaica
An Act for making free Negroes, Indians, and Mulattoes Evidence in all Causes against one another, in all the Courts of this Island.	1748	Jamaica
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 for rending more effectual, and for supplying many defects in the several Laws of this Island, for the governing of Negroes	1749	Barbados
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 for the better Government of Free Negroes, and for discouraging and prohibiting of Traffic with them, and with all Slaves.	1761	Montserrat
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

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