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Year
Location
An Act for further improving the condition of the Slave Population in the Island of St. Christopher.
1828
St. Christopher
An Act for regulating markets on Sundays, and for preventing the employment of slaves in work or labour on that day.
1828
Nevis
An Act for granting a Salary to the Reverend Antony O’Hannan, Roman Catholic Clergyman in this Government.
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 to repeal an Act commonly called the Slave Act, and to substitute a new Act in lieu thereof.
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
Second Supplementary Ordinance to His Majesty’s Order in Council, establishing a Consolidated Slave Law.
1830
St. Lucia
An Act to remove certain Restrictions affecting the Testimony of Slaves
1831
Barbados
An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Slaves.
1831
Dominica
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