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.

WHEREAS some time in the month of August, in the present year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, a dangerous conspiracy was formed by some slaves in the parish of Westmorland, to raise [rise], and kill the white people in the said parish, and a general massacre was intended, in case the conspirators had succeeded in their attempts: And whereas the said Attea did give information of such conspiracy, whereby the lives of a great number of white persons were undoubtedly saved, and another general rebellion, in all probability, prevented: In recompense whereof, and as an encouragement to other slaves to behave with the same honesty and fidelity on the like occasions, May it please your majesty that it may be enacted; Be it therefore enacted by the governor, council, and assembly, of this your majesty's island of Jamaica, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said negro woman slave named Attea be, and she is hereby, manumised and set free from all manner of slavery whatsoever; and that George Scott, esquire, the receiver-general, or the receiver-general for the time being, do pay to the representatives of the said George Williams the sum of one hundred pounds, current money of Jamaica, in full satisfaction for the said negro woman named Attea; and that the said George Scott, or the receiver-general for the time being, do also pay to the said negro woman named Attea, on the first day of January annually, the sum of five pounds during her life, out of any monies in his hands unappropriated.