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A Supplementary act to the *act for the relief of creditors, and to prevent frauds and deceits occasioned by secret sales and mortgages, and gifts of goods and chattels.
1763
Maryland
An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act for regulating the Pilotage of Cape Fear River, and for other Purposes.
1766
North Carolina
A Supplementary act to the act, entitled, * An act for the speedy trial of criminals, and ascertaining their punishment in the county courts, when prosecuted there, and for payment of fees, due from criminal persons.
1766
Maryland
An Act to prevent hunting with a Gun in the Night by Fire Light.
1773
North Carolina
An Act to prevent Sedition, and punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public Peace
1776
South Carolina
An Act to prevent domestic Insurrections, and for other Purposes.
1777
North Carolina
An Act to alter and amend an Act, entitled, An Act to oblige Persons having Negroes, or other Effects not their own Property, in their Possession, to render an Account thereof, and to punish such as shall embezzle, conceal, or neglect to render and Account of the same.
1783
South Carolina
An additional act to amend the several acts for regulating the town of Wilmington, and to regulate and restrain the conduct of slaves and others in the said town, and in the towns of Washington, Edenton and Fayetteville.
1785
North Carolina
An Act authorising Persons having or taking up run-away Slaves to send them to the Gaols of the Districts where they may be apprehended, and not to the Work-House of Charleston.
1788
South Carolina
An Act authorising Persons having or taking up run-away Slaves to send them to the Gaols of the Districts where they may be apprehended, and not to the Work-House of Charleston.
1788
South Carolina
An Act to regulate the Payment and Recovery of Debts, and to prohibit the Importation of Negroes, for the Time therein limited.
1788
South Carolina
An ACT to prohibit the importation of slaves from Africa or other places beyond sea, into this state for two years, and also to prohibit the importation or bringing in of negro slaves, mulattoes, Indians, Moors or mustizoes bound for a term of years from any of the United States by land or Water.
1792
South Carolina
An ACT to revive and extend an Act, entitled an Act to prohibit the importation of Slaves from Africa, or other places beyond sea, into this State, for two years; and also to prohibit the importation or bringing in of Negro Slaves, Mulattoes, Indians, Moors, or Mustezoes, bound foe a term of years, from any of the United States, by land or water.
1794
South Carolina
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