An ACT to revive an Act, intituled “An Act to appoint Commissioners for the purpose of obtaining an exact Account of the number of Negroes in this Government and its Dependencies.

WHEREAS an Act, intituled, “An Act for appoint Commissioners to obtain an exact account of the number of Coloured free People, &c.” has been dormant, and become in some measure obsolete; We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, Robert Paul, esquire, commander in chief in and over the Island of Saint Vincent, Bequia, and such of the Grenadines as lie to the northward of Carriacou in America, and the council and assembly of the same have enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the above-mentioned Act shall be revived, and it is hereby revived accordingly.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners therein named and appointed, shall issue their warrants as therein directed, within the space of one month from the date hereof, and shall take a return of the numbers of the population; which return shall be transmitted to the clerk of assembly within ten days after taking it, and be by him laid before the legislature at their next succeeding meeting.

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners shall issue their warrants in like manner in their respective parishes, to summon the white inhabitants to appear on a certain day, and give in on oath a return of the names and sex of all and every white person, of his her or their family or families, at that time resident within this government and its dependencies; and all and every neglect, refusal or default, shall be liable to and punished by the like pains and penalties as directed by the second clause of the afore-mentioned Act.

Dated in Kingstown, the fourth day of September, in the fifty-first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, King, Defender of the Faith; and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven. Edward Sharpe, Speaker.

Passed the Assembly, this 4th day of September one thousand eight hundred and eleven. Herbert P. Cox, Clerk of the Assembly.

Passed the Council, the 17th day of October one thousand eight hundred and eleven. Daniel P. Barnard, Deputy Pub. Secretary. Robert Paul. 

Duly published in Kingstown, this twenty-second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in the fifty-first year of His Majesty’s reign. William Alexander, Provost Marshal General.