An Act to continue an Act, intituled, “An Act for the more effectual trial and punishment of criminal Slaves, and to authorize His Majesty’s justices of the peace to appoint constables in cases of emergency.

WHEREAS an Act, intituled, “An Act for the more effectual Trial and Punishment of criminal Slaves, and to authorize His Majesty’s justices of the peace to appoint constables in cases of emergency,” bearing date the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, was made, to continue and remain in force for the space and term of two years from the date thereof; and the same will soon expire: And whereas it is essential to the public peace and tranquillity of these Islands, that the said Act, or some other provision of the like nature should subsist, we, Your Majesty’s most dutiful loyal and obedient subjects, his excellency the governor in chief of these Islands, the honourable the members of Your Majesty’s council, and the representatives of the people of the said Islands, in general assembly convened, pray Your most excellent Majesty, that it may be enacted and ordained;

And be it and it is enacted and ordained by the authority of the same, That the above recited Act shall be and the same is hereby continued from the day before the expiration thereof, for the space and term of two years, and from thence until some other provision shall be made and enacted by the Legislature of these Islands, for carrying into execution the purposes intended by the said recited Act.