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Recently Updated

Below are the recently added and updated laws. More transcriptions are forthcoming.

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Title Location Date Added Changed
An Act for the preventing & punnising of Those Who Shall Willfully Burne or fire any Canes Antigua
An Act for ye punishing and ordering of Negro Slaves Jamaica
A Supplemental Act to a former act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes Barbados
An Act for making free a negro man slave named Cato, belonging to Arthur Forrest, esquire. 9th November, 1764 Jamaica
An Act to prevent Hazzards and Inconveniences that may happen by Thatcht Houses in the Town of Plymouth and clandestine Dealings with Negroes Montserrat
An Act to prevent Burning or Breaking of Canes Montserrat
An Act to restrain the Insolences of Slaves and for preventing them from committing any outrages as also the better ordering such Slaves, etc. Montserrat
An Act for the Encouraging the Importation of White Servants Montserrat
An Act for the making Restitution for Cattle Stolen by Negroes and Licenses for Tapp Houses in Town and Country Montserrat
An Act for terminating the Apprenticeship of the Praedial Labourers within this Island, on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. Barbados
An Act for the Abolition of the present Court of King’s Bench and Grand Sessions; to substitute a Court of King’s Bench in lieu thereof; and to extend to Slaves the benefit of Trial therein, in cases of a higher nature than Misdemeanors. Tobago
An Act to repeal an Act commonly called the Slave Act, and to substitute a new Act in lieu thereof. Tobago
An Act to repeal an act entitled “An Act for the good Order and Government of Slaves, and for repealing an act of this Island, entitled An Act for the good Order and Government of Slaves, and for keeping them under proper restraint, and for... Tobago
An Act to remove doubts respecting the Repeal of certain Acts relating to the payment of one hundred pounds upon the manumission of Slaves, and for legalizing all such deeds of Manumission as have been executed heretofore, without such payment being made Grenada
An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases. Grenada
An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Slaves. Dominica
An Act for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition. Dominica
An Act to repeal the Tax on the Manumission of Slaves. Dominica
Proclamation Berbice
AN Act to re-enact and amend certain Clauses of an Ordinance for promoting the religious instruction, and bettering the State and Condition of the Slave Population in His Majesty’s Colony of Berbice Berbice
An Act to remove certain Restrictions affecting the Testimony of Slaves Barbados
A Proclamation Barbados
An Act for removing Pecuniary Deposits on the Manumission of Slaves. Barbados
An Act for the Punishment of such Slaves as shall be found practising Obeah Barbados
A Proclamation Antigua