An Act to continue an Act for the more effectually to prevent the desertion of Slaves, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

WHEREAS an Act, made and passed in the forty-first year of your Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for the more effectually to prevent the desertion of Slaves, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” will shortly expire, and whereas it is highly necessary and expedient that the said Act, and every clause and matter and thing therein contained, should be further continued; May it therefore pleasure your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by his Excellency John Halkett esquire, your Majesty’s governor and commander in chief, the council and assembly of your Majesty’s Bahama Islands, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority of the same, That the said Act, and every clause matter and thing therein contained, be further continued in full force from and after the expiration thereof, for and during the term of ten years, and until the end of the next session of the general assembly.