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Title	Year	Location
An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases.	1825	Grenada
An Act to legalize the Marriage of Slaves in the Island of Nevis, to declare their property secured to them by Law; to render them competent witnesses under certain restrictions; to regulate proceedings at Law respecting them in Civil and Criminal cases; and further to ameliorate their condition.	1826	Nevis
An Act for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition.	1826	Dominica
“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 Ameliorate the condition of Slaves and Free Persons of Colour.	1827	Bermuda
An Act for further improving the condition of the Slave Population in the Island of St. Christopher.	1828	St. Christopher
An Act to enable all His Majesty’s free-born coloured Male British Subjects to sit as Jurors on all Trials and Coroner’s Inquests within these Islands.	1828	Grenada
An Act to repeal the Forty-seventh Clause of an Act, intituled ‘An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases,’ and also two certain Acts, intituled ‘An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases, in so far as relates to the admission of the evidence of Slaves for and against Slaves;’ and ‘An Act to amend and explain an Act, intituled, An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases, in so far as relates to the admission of the evidence	1828	Grenada
An Act for the Abolition of the present Court of King’s Bench and Grand Sessions; to substitute a Court of King’s Bench in lieu thereof; and to extend to Slaves the benefit of Trial therein, in cases of a higher nature than Misdemeanors.	1829	Tobago
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
An Act for declaring the Evidence of Slaves to be in future admissible in all the Criminal Courts of this Island.	1831	Antigua