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Title	Year	Location
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves.	1741	North Carolina
An act for recovering and extending the trade with the Indian settlements in America and preventing for the future some evil practices formerly committed in that trade.	1744	Jamaica
An Act to regulate the selling of Gun-powder, and to prevent the selling of Fire-arms to Slaves.	1744	Jamaica
An Act to explain and amend an Act, entituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves; and for making free and rewarding a Negroe named Hector, belonging to Thomas Fuller, Esq. and paying his said Master the Value of the said Negroe.	1744	Jamaica
An Act for making free Negroes, Indians, and Mulattoes Evidence in all Causes against one another, in all the Courts of this Island.	1748	Jamaica
An additional supplementary act to the act, entitled, *An act relating to servants and slaves.	1748	Maryland
An Act to inflict further and other Punishments on runaway Slaves, and such as shall entertain them.	1749	Jamaica
An Act to amend an Act, entituled, An Act to repeal Part of an Act, entituled, An Act for the more effectual Punishment of Crimes committed by Slaves; and to oblige the several Parishes to pay for all Negroes executed in each respective Parish.	1749	Jamaica
An Act for rending more effectual, and for supplying many defects in the several Laws of this Island, for the governing of Negroes	1749	Barbados
An Act to explain Part of an Act, entituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves; and for inflicting further and other Punishment on Persons killing Negroes or Slaves.	1751	Jamaica
An Act for the more effectual punishment of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders, and a supplementary act to an act, entitled, * An Act to prevent the tumultuous meeting and other irregularities of negroes and other slaves, and directing the manner of trying slaves.	1751	Maryland
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 empower the justices and vestry of the parish of St. Thomas in the East to allot negroes for making a road from the Sea to the Bath.	1751	Jamaica
An additional Act, to an Act, concerning Servants and Slaves.	1753	North Carolina
An Act for the more effectual preventing the evil Practice of the Owners of Slaves hiring out such Slaves to themselves.	1753	Jamaica
A Supplementary and explanatory act to an act, entitled, *An act for the more effectual punishment of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders, and a supplementary act to an act, †entitled, An act to prevent the tumultuous meetings and other irregularities of negroes and other slaves.	1753	Maryland
An ACT to prevent masters of ships and vessels from clandestinely carrying servants and slaves, or persons indebted, out of this province.	1753	Maryland
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 make the Copy of Tolls of Negroes, or other slaves, Evidences, and to enlarge the Fee to be paid for entering Tolls of Negroes and other Slaves in the Toll-Books of the several Precincts of this Island.	1755	Jamaica
An additional Act to and Act, intituled, An Act concerning Servants and Slaves	1758	North Carolina
An act to establish the probates of all deeds and conveyances, which have been proved and acknowledged in this island since the second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight, before persons who had been appointed judges under an act entitled “An act to enlarge the jurisdiction of the several inferior courts of common pleas,” and since the repeal thereof, good and valid in that respect only; as also to establish the probates of all deeds and conveyances, taken and acknowledged by justices of assize, good and valid in that respect only; and to establish certain toll-books for the parishes of St. Dorothy and St. Thomas in the Vale, as records.	1760	Jamaica
An Act to make free several negro and mulatto slaves, as a reward for their faithful services in the late rebellion.	1760	Jamaica
An Act to remedy the Evils arising from irregular Assemblies of Slaves, and to prevent their possessing Arms and Ammunition and going from Place to Place without Tickets, and for preventing the Practice of Obeah, and to restrain Overseers from leaving the Estates under their Care on certain Days, and to oblige all Free Negroes, Mulattoes or Indians to register their Names in the Vestry Books of the respective Parishes of this Island, and to carry about them the Certificate and wear the Badge of their Freedom, and to prevent any Captain, Master or Supercargo of any Vessel bringing back Slaves transported off the Island.	1760	Jamaica
An Act for the better Government of Free Negroes, and for discouraging and prohibiting of Traffic with them, and with all Slaves.	1761	Montserrat
An Act to make free a negro slave, named Jack, the property of Peter Thomas, of the parish of Saint Mary, planter, for his faithful services to the public. 19th December, 1761	1761	Jamaica

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