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An Act, to explain and amend an Act, intituled, 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.	1761	Jamaica
A Supplementary act to the *act for the relief of creditors, and to prevent frauds and deceits occasioned by secret sales and mortgages, and gifts of goods and chattels.	1763	Maryland
An Act for making free a negro man slave, named Jack Pearson, belonging to the estate of William Ricketts, Esq. deceased.	1763	Jamaica
An Act for making free a negro man slave named Cato, belonging to Arthur Forrest, esquire. 9th November, 1764	1764	Jamaica
An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act for regulating the Pilotage of Cape Fear River, and for other Purposes.	1766	North Carolina
A Supplementary act to the act, entitled, * An act for the speedy trial of criminals, and ascertaining their punishment in the county courts, when prosecuted there, and for payment of fees, due from criminal persons.	1766	Maryland
An Act for making Slaves Real Estate, and the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes.	1767	St. Vincent
An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Governing of Negroes.’	1767	Barbados
An Act for making free and rewarding two negro men slaves, the one named York, belonging to the estate of Ballard Beckford, deceased; and the other named Cuffee, belonging to James Charles Sholto Douglas, Esquire, and for paying to their owners their respective values.	1767	Jamaica
An Act for the further regulation of the provost-marshal's proceedings in the sale of negro and other slaves taken by virtue of writs of venditioni exponas.	1768	Jamaica
An act to explain and amend part of an act entitled “An act to encourage colonel Cudjoe and captain Quao, and the several negroes under their command in Trelawny and Crawford Towns, and all other towns of rebellious negroes who submitted to terms, to pursue and take up runaway slaves, and such negroes as continue in rebellion; and for remedying some inconveniences in the laws already made for that purpose	1769	Jamaica
An act for remedying the inconveniencies which may arise from the number of negro huts and houses, built in and about the towns of St. Jago de la Vega, Port-Royal, and Kingston.	1770	Jamaica
An act for making free and rewarding a mulatto man slave named Will, belonging to the estate of William Jones, deceased, and paying to the honourable Archibald Sinclair and Richard Welch, esquires, the representatives of the said William Jones, the value of the said mulatto man.	1772	Jamaica
An Act to prevent hunting with a Gun in the Night by Fire Light.	1773	North Carolina
An Act for suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves; and for preventing Slaves being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for enabling the Commander in Chief, or President of the Council for the Time being, to send out Detachments of Free Mulattoes, Free Negroes, and other Free Persons, being Male Descendants of Negroes, in Pursuit of Runaway Slaves.	1773	Dominica
An ACT for laying an additional Duty on all Negroes imported into this Island.	1774	Jamaica
An act for making free and rewarding a negro woman slave named Attea, the property of the heirs of George Williams, esquire, deceased, and for paying her value.	1774	Jamaica
An ACT for raising several Sums of Money, and applying the same to several uses, for subsisting for One Year the Officers and Soldiers of His Majesty’s Fiftieth and Sixtieth Regiments of Foot, quartered in this Island.	1774	Jamaica
An act for regulating the manumission of negro, mulatto, and other slaves; and to oblige the owners to make a provision for them during their lives.	1774	Jamaica
An act for the better regulation of executors and administrators, in the defence of actions or suits brought against them in right of their respective testators or intestates estates; and for other purposes.	1775	Jamaica
An act to regulate the devises of negro, mulatto, and other slaves, in wills.	1775	Jamaica
An act to prevent improper levies being made on the negroes or other slaves of minors; and to regulate the sales of slaves taken on writs against persons who have only an estate for a term of years, or for their own lives, or for the lives of any other persons, in negro or other slaves.	1776	Jamaica
An act to explain and amend an act, entitled, “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.	1776	Jamaica
An Act to prevent Sedition, and punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public Peace	1776	South Carolina
"An act to repeal an act entitled, ["An act to repeal an act entitled,] 'An act to prevent negro and other runaway slaves from being harboured and entertained, by establishing a constant patrolling party in each parish throughout this island; and to prevent slaves from being carried from this island by masters of ships ad other vessels; [and to prevent negro and other runaway slaves from being harboured and entertained, by establishing a constant patrolling party in each parish throughout this island; and to prevent slaves from being carried from this island by masters of ships and other vessels."]	1776	Jamaica

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