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Title
Year
Location
An Act for governing Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees, and Indians, and for suspending several Acts therein mentioned.
1784
Bahamas
An Act to prohibit the selling, purchasing, hiring or employing of certain Foreign Slaves, except as is therein excepted; for authorizing the Provost Marshal to sell, continue and transport the same; and for other purposes therein mentioned.
1795
Bahamas
An Act to consolidate and 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...
1796
Bahamas
An Act for the more effectually to prevent the desertion of Slaves, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
1800
Bahamas
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.”
1802
Bahamas
An Act to continue an Act for the more effectually to prevent the desertion of Slaves, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
1802
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.
1803
Bahamas
An Act for fixing the mode of trying Questions relative to the freedom of Negroes and other persons of Colour, and for suspending certain Acts therein mentioned.
1805
Bahamas
An Act to continue an Act passed in the forty-fifth year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for trying Questions relative to the Freedom of Negroes and other persons of Colour, and for suspending certain acts therein mentioned.”
1808
Bahamas
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 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 to extend certain Privileges of Persons of Free Condition within these Islands.
1822
Bahamas
AN ACT to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act to establish a Triennial Registration of Slaves in the Bahama Islands.”
1823
Bahamas
An Act to amend, consolidate, and bring into one Act, the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further Protection and Security, and for suspending several Acts and Clauses of Acts therein mentioned, and for other Purposes.
1824
Bahamas
An Act for the more effectual Punishment of those Persons who shall attempt to commit the Crime of Arson.
1824
Bahamas
An Act for fixing the mode of trying Questions relative to the Freedom of Negroes, and for suspending certain Acts therein mentioned.
1826
Bahamas
“An Act to amend an Act, entitled ‘An Act to amend, consolidate, and bring into one Act, the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further Protection and Security, and for suspending several Acts and Clauses of Acts therein mentioned, and for other Purposes.’”
1826
Bahamas
An Act to amend and explain an Act intituled ‘An Act for fixing the mode of trying Questions relative to the Freedom of Negroes, and for suspending certain Acts therein mentioned.
1827
Bahamas
An Act to amend, consolidate and bring into one Act, the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further protection and security, and for suspending several Acts and Clauses of Acts therein mentioned, and for other purposes.
1829
Bahamas