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Displaying 326 - 350 of 355
Title
Year
Location
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 establish and vest in the Magistracy of this Island the Protection and Guardianship of Slaves.
1828
Nevis
An Act to regulate the admission of the Evidence of Slaves in this Island.
1828
Nevis
An Act for regulating the Solemnization of Marriages among Slaves, and for declaring such Marriages valid and effectual in the Law.
1828
Nevis
An Act to prevent the Separation of Slaves by Sale or Transfer in certain cases, without their Consent.
1828
Nevis
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 to enable Slaves to acquire, possess and alienate Property.
1828
Nevis
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 prevent the holding of Markets on the Sabbath-day, and appointing Thursdays and Saturdays to be public Market-days.
1828
Grenada
An Act for granting a Salary to the Reverend Antony O’Hannan, Roman Catholic Clergyman in this Government.
1828
Grenada
An Act more effectually to facilitate the Manumission of Slaves in the Island of Nevis, and to repeal all Acts and Clauses of Acts relating thereto.
1828
Nevis
An Act to repeal an Act commonly called the Slave Act, and to substitute a new Act in lieu thereof.
1829
Tobago
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
First Subsidiary Ordinance to His Majesty’s Order in Council, establishing a Consolidated Slave Law.
1830
St. Lucia
AN Act to re-enact and amend certain Clauses of an Ordinance for promoting the religious instruction, and bettering the State and Condition of the Slave Population in His Majesty’s Colony of Berbice
1830
Berbice
Proclamation
1830
Berbice
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 for removing Pecuniary Deposits on the Manumission of Slaves.
1831
Barbados
An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Slaves.
1831
Dominica
An Act for declaring the Evidence of Slaves to be in future admissible in all the Criminal Courts of this Island.
1831
Antigua
Order in Council Prescribing the Treatment of Slave Evidences.
1831
St. Lucia
Order in Council Defining the method of paying the Expenses of safe Custody and Prosecution in cases of Complaints made by Slaves which are not established, or which are proved to be malicious and unfounded.
1831
St. Lucia
A Proclamation
1831
Antigua
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