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Title	Location	Date	Added Sort ascending	Changed
AN ACT to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act to establish a Triennial Registration of Slaves in the Bahama Islands.”	Bahamas	1823-01-28	02/01/2023 - 01:30	07/30/2024 - 20:34
“An Act to amend an Act, entitled ‘An Act to amend, consolidate, and bring into one Act, the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further Protection and Security, and for suspending several Acts and Clauses of Acts therein mentioned,	Bahamas	1826-12-19	02/01/2023 - 01:19	04/20/2024 - 18:45
An Act for fixing the mode of trying Questions relative to the Freedom of Negroes, and for suspending certain Acts therein mentioned.	Bahamas	1826-10-25	02/01/2023 - 01:13	07/22/2024 - 20:31
An Act for governing Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees, and Indians, and for suspending several Acts therein mentioned.	Bahamas	1784-01-01	02/01/2023 - 01:06	07/08/2024 - 17:58
An Act to prevent persons on Turks Islands from retailing spirituous liquors, without being licenced, from trafficking with Slaves, and for other purposes therein mentioned, and to suspend so much of an Act, intituled, “An Act to amend...	Bahamas	1808-12-31	02/01/2023 - 01:01	07/08/2024 - 16:17
An Act to continue an Act passed in the forty-fifth year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for trying Questions relative to the Freedom of Negroes and other persons of Colour, and for suspending certain acts therein mentioned.”	Bahamas	1808-02-29	02/01/2023 - 00:58	07/08/2024 - 16:15
An Act for fixing the mode of trying Questions relative to the freedom of Negroes and other persons of Colour, and for suspending certain Acts therein mentioned.	Bahamas	1805-01-14	02/01/2023 - 00:13	07/08/2024 - 16:13
An Act to further continue an Act, intituled, “An Act to bring into one Act the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further protection and security; for altering the mode of trial of Slaves charged with capital offences; for suspending	Bahamas	1802-01-01	02/01/2023 - 00:10	07/08/2024 - 16:09
An Act for the more effectually to prevent the desertion of Slaves, and for other purposes therein mentioned.	Bahamas	1800-01-01	02/01/2023 - 00:06	07/08/2024 - 16:05
An Act to prohibit the selling, purchasing, hiring or employing of certain Foreign Slaves, except as is therein excepted; for authorizing the Provost Marshal to sell, continue and transport the same; and for other purposes therein mentioned.	Bahamas	1795-12-23	01/31/2023 - 23:59	05/28/2024 - 16:21
An Act to revive for a limited Time a certain Act of this Island, intituled, “An Act for suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves, and for preventing Slaves being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for enabling the	Dominica	1784-08-07	01/30/2023 - 02:56	07/08/2024 - 17:54
An Act to revive and continue for a further limited Time an Act, intituled, “An Act to revive for a limited Time an Act, intituled, An Act for the suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves, and for preventing Slaves from	Dominica	1787-03-17	01/30/2023 - 02:51	07/08/2024 - 17:52
An Act to enable the commanding officer of the corps of rangers employed in suppressing the runaway Slaves, to procure such Slaves for guides as he shall think best qualified to discover the camps or places of resort of the runaways in the woods.	Dominica	1794-12-06	01/30/2023 - 02:48	07/08/2024 - 15:09
An Act to make the testimony of Slaves admissible in certain cases and under certain restrictions, for a limited time, to forfeit runaway Slaves who have been absent from the service of their masters a certain time; and to oblige the inhabitants of this	Dominica	1798-04-30	01/30/2023 - 02:43	07/08/2024 - 15:07
An Act, intituled, “An Act to extend the time limited by the Act for the registry of Slaves in this Island; and to indemnify such persons as may have failed in making their Returns within the time prescribed by that Act, and for other purposes.”	Dominica	1817-08-06	01/30/2023 - 02:38	07/23/2024 - 19:39
An Act for the trial and effectual punishment of such runaway Slaves as may hereafter be taken, and be known to be chiefs or leaders of camps, or bands of runaways in the woods.	Dominica	1800-10-16	01/30/2023 - 02:35	07/08/2024 - 15:05
An Act for ascertaining the number of White persons, Free persons of Colour, and Slaves in this Island.	Dominica	1811-02-19	01/30/2023 - 02:30	07/08/2024 - 15:03
An Act to revive and make perpetual an Act of this Island, intituled, “An Act for the encouragement, protection, and better government of Slaves.”	Dominica	1793-03-15	01/30/2023 - 02:26	07/08/2024 - 15:01
An Act for the Encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves.	Dominica	1788-12-23	01/30/2023 - 02:19	07/08/2024 - 17:49
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Created Through Acts of Union (1800)		1801-01-01	01/29/2023 - 02:50	01/29/2024 - 16:40
Bank of England Established		1694-07-07	01/29/2023 - 02:47	01/29/2024 - 16:40
Seven Years' War Ends		1763-02-15	01/29/2023 - 02:43	01/29/2024 - 16:40
Seven Years' War Begins		1756-05-17	01/29/2023 - 02:42	01/29/2024 - 16:40
An Act to alter and amend an Act of this Island, published the Twenty-third Day of August, in the Year One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy-three, intituled, “An Act for the suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves, and	Dominica	1784-11-11	01/29/2023 - 02:29	07/08/2024 - 17:47
An Act to revive, for a limited Time, a certain Act of this Island, intituled, “An Act for the suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves, and for preventing Slaves from being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for	Dominica	1785-11-24	01/29/2023 - 02:26	07/08/2024 - 17:45