An act for the more effectual directing the marshal’s proceedings, and regulating thereof.

 

ENACTS, Clause 9.--- “That, whenever hereafter any slave or slaves, taken on any writ or writs of venditioni, shall be exposed to sale, the provost-marshal, and his deputies respectively, shall sell all such slaves singly, unless in cases of families, in which case, and no other, the said provost-marshal, or any of his deputies, may set up to sale such family or families, consisting of a man and his wife, her, or their, children.”