An ACT to repeal an Act, intituled, “An Act for the security of the Subject to prevent the forfeiture of life and estate upon killing a Negro or other Slave.”

  WHEREAS, although no instance can be adduced of any persons having claimed the benefit of the said Act, intituled, “An Act for the security of the subject, to prevent the forfeiture of life and estate upon killing a negro or other slave,” and the same is generally considered as obsolete, yet it is right to place a question of such a nature beyond the possibility of a doubt, we therefore, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the general assembly of these your Majesty’s Bermuda or Somers Islands in America, do most humbly beseech your Majesty, that it may be enacted and be it enacted by your Majesty’s governor, council and assembly, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority of the same, that the said Act, intituled, “an Act for the security of the subject, to prevent the forfeiture of life and estate upon killing a negro or other slave,” be repealed, and the same is hereby declared to be repealed, and that this Act be not in force until his Majesty’s pleasure be had thereon, and made known in these Islands. 

Voted and unanimously passed the Assembly, this sixteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and ordered to be laid before the council for concurrence. 

James Tucker (Speaker.) 

Concurred to by the Council, this seventeenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. 

John Harvy (President.) 

Assented to this seventeenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. 

Henry Hamilton.