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Title
Year
Location
An Act to explain and render more effectual an Act, intituled, “An Act to restrain thefts committed by Negro and other Slaves, and to prevent the dishonest traffick carried on by such as deal with them.
1808
St. Christopher
An Act to prevent persons on Turks Islands from retailing spirituous liquors, without being licenced, from trafficking with Slaves, and for other purposes therein mentioned, and to suspend so much of an Act, intituled, “An Act to amend...
1808
Bahamas
An Act for regulating the hire of Slaves, carts, waggons and drays, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
1808
Bahamas
An Act to continue in force an Act to prohibit the purchasing, selling, hiring or employing of certain Foreign Slaves, except as therein excepted, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
1808
Bahamas
An act to repeal several acts therein mentioned respecting slaves, to declare slaves assets for payment of debts and legacies, and in what manner they shall descend and be held as property, and be sold and conveyed in certain cases.
1809
Jamaica
An act to repeal “An act for preventing depredations on coffee and other produce, and for discovering and punishing receivers of stolen produce, and for better regulating certificates of the growth of such produce;” and for making further provision against the evils contemplated in the said act.
1809
Jamaica
An ACT to remove doubts concerning the trial of Slaves manumitted after the commission of Felonies of which they may stand accused.
1809
Barbados
An Act to further continue an Act, intituled, “An Act to bring into one Act the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further protection and security, for altering the mode of trial of Slaves charged with capital Offences, for suspending the several Acts and clauses of Acts therein mentioned, and for other purposes.”
1809
Bahamas
An ACT for the protection, subsisting, clothing, and for the better order, regulation and government of Slaves, and for other purposes.
1809
Jamaica
An Act to regulate the manumitting of Slaves in this Island; to impose a tax upon manumissions, and to impose a tax upon all free and manumitted persons coming to this Island.
1810
Dominica
An Act for ascertaining the number of White persons, Free persons of Colour, and Slaves in this Island.
1811
Dominica
An ACT to revive an Act, intituled “An Act to appoint Commissioners for the purpose of obtaining an exact Account of the number of Negroes in this Government and its Dependencies.
1811
St. Vincent
An act for preserving all such ships or vessels, and goods belonging thereto, which shall happen to be forced on shore or stranded on the coasts of this island; for preventing the stealing or detaining of shipwrecked goods; for regulating the adjustment and payment of salvage to such persons as assist in preserving such ships, vessels, or goods.
1812
Jamaica
An Act to explain and amend an Act, intituled, “An Act for making Slaves real estate, and for the better government of Slaves and Free Negroes."
1813
St. Vincent
An ACT to repeal several Acts and the clause of an Act of this Island, respecting persons of Free condition, and for granting to such persons certain privileges
1813
Jamaica
An ACT to enable the justices and vestry of the several parishes of this Island to fit out parties of confidential Slaves
1813
Jamaica
An ACT to enable persons of Colour and Negroes of Free condition, to save deficiencies for their own Slaves, and for the Slaves of each other
1813
Jamaica
An Act to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act to prevent the clandestine departure of persons from the island.”
1814
Tobago
An Act to compel persons manumitting Slaves in this Island, to provide for their support, and to restrict Manumissions of Slaves belonging to other Islands.
1814
Tobago
An ACT for rendering more effectual two certain Acts of this Island respecting Foreign Slaves and Foreigners of a certain description, one passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and the other passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and one.
1814
Jamaica
“An ACT to repeal the fourth Clause of an Act, intituled, 'An Act to explain and amend an Act, intituled, ‘An Act for making Slaves real Estate, and the better government of Slaves and free Negroes,’ and to amend and re-enact the same'”
1815
St. Vincent
A BILL for establishing a registry of negro and other slaves in the island of St. Vincents and its dependencies. (Incomplete)
1816
St. Vincent
An act for making further provision for the curates of the several parishes of this island.
1816
Jamaica
An ACT for a more particular return of Slaves in this Island, and the enrolment thereof.
1816
Jamaica
An Act in furtherance of the Provisions of the Abolition Laws within this Island.
1816
Jamaica
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