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Title
Year
Location
Proclamation.
1814
Mauritius
A PROCLAMATION issued by Lord Charles Henry Somerset, for religious Instruction and treatment of Slaves.
1823
Cape of Good Hope
For establishing, under a fix penal clause, the weight of the chains and fetters, or iron rings, which the inhabitants are authorized, by the existing laws, to put upon their slaves; and also for preventing the infliction of any punishment upon a slave who, after having made a complaint against his master, shall have been returned to the latter, upon condition that such slave shall be treated without resentment.
1826
Mauritius
For amending, by certain modifications, the laws and regulations relative to emancipations at the island of Mauritius and its Dependencies; and for establishing, by a fixed regulation, and in one and the same ordinance, all that regards such emancipation.
1827
Mauritius
Ordinance in Council for Improving the condition of the Slave Population of Mauritius.
1827
Mauritius
Ordinance of His Excellency the Governor in Council. FOR amending the dispositions of the article 20th of the letters patent of the month of December 1723, and the 15th article of the Ordinance des Administrateurs généraux of the islands of France and Bourbon, under date of 26th September 1767, as also the dispositions of the 18th and 19th, articles of the arrêté of 28th April 1808.
1828
Mauritius
For repealing all laws, regulations and ordinances in force relative to the Emancipation of Slaves at the Mauritius, and for embodying into a single law every formality required to effect such emancipations for the future.
1828
Mauritius