An Act, to amend an Act therein mentioned, concerning Servants and Slaves.

I. WHEREAS by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Sections of an Act of Assembly of this Province, passed in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Eight, intituled, An additional Act to an Act, intituled, An Act, concerning Servants and Slaves, it is Enacted, That no male Slave shall, for the first Offence, be condemned to Death, unless for Murder or Rape; but for every other capital Crime, shall, for the first Offence, suffer, Castration; and that the Court trying such Slave shall value the same.

II. BE it Enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, and it is hereby Enacted, by the Authority of the same, That the said Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Section of the aforesaid Act, be, and are hereby repealed and made void.

III. AND be if further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That there shall not be allowed by the Public to the Owner of any Slave who shall hereafter be executed in Virtue of the Judgement of the Court who shall try such Slave, any larger Sum that Eighty Pounds Proclamation Money; any Law, Usage or Custom, to the contrary, notwithstanding.