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Title
Year
Location
An ACT inhibiting the Trading with Servants and Slaves.
1695
South Carolina
An ACT for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and Slaves.
1712
South Carolina
(copy) An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and Slaves.
1712
South Carolina
An ACT for the better Securing this Province from Negro Insurrections, and for Encouraging of poor People by employing them in Plantations.
1726
South Carolina
An Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province.
1740
South Carolina
An additional and explanatory Act to an Act of the General Assembly of this Province, entitled, an Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province. And for continuing such Part of the said Act as is not altered or amended by this present Act, for the Term therein mentioned.
1751
South Carolina
An Act to prevent the inveigling, stealing and carrying away Negroes and other Slaves in this Province: And to prevent the carrying away of Schooners or Pettiauguas. And also, for repealing so much of an Act, intitled, an Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province, as relates to the time within which Offenders, that are apprehended, shall be tried: And giving the Justices and Freeholders a Power to postpone the Trial of such Offenders.
1754
South Carolina
An Act to prevent Sedition, and punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public Peace
1776
South 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 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