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Haitian Revolution Ends
1804-01-01
01/21/2023 - 23:22
01/29/2024 - 16:40
Haitian Revolution Begins
1791-08-21
01/21/2023 - 23:21
01/29/2024 - 16:40
An Act for establishing regulations respecting Slaves arriving in this Island, or resident therein; except such as are imported direct from the coast of Africa.
Tobago
1794-05-31
01/21/2023 - 23:14
07/05/2024 - 17:11
An Act to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act to prevent the clandestine departure of persons from the island.”
Tobago
1814-04-29
01/21/2023 - 23:10
07/05/2024 - 17:08
An Act to prevent more effectually Slaves absenting themselves from the service of their masters, owners or renters.
Tobago
1807-11-06
01/21/2023 - 18:58
07/05/2024 - 17:05
An Act to compel persons manumitting Slaves in this Island, to provide for their support, and to restrict Manumissions of Slaves belonging to other Islands.
Tobago
1814-10-14
01/21/2023 - 18:54
07/05/2024 - 17:02
An Act for granting a Salary to the Reverend Antony O’Hannan, Roman Catholic Clergyman in this Government.
Grenada
1828-11-24
01/21/2023 - 18:48
07/22/2024 - 20:25
An Act to prevent the holding of Markets on the Sabbath-day, and appointing Thursdays and Saturdays to be public Market-days.
Grenada
1828-11-24
01/21/2023 - 18:40
07/22/2024 - 20:23
An ACT to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act for establishing a Registry of Negro and other Slaves in the Island of Granada and its Dependencies.”
Grenada
1817-01-01
01/21/2023 - 18:36
07/23/2024 - 19:24
An Act to repeal so much of an Act commonly called the Guardian Act, as gives an annuity of ten pounds to any Slave manumitted according to the direction of that Act, and for certain other purposes.
Grenada
1806-10-25
01/21/2023 - 18:33
06/25/2024 - 20:36
An Act for the better protection, and for promoting the natural increase and population of Slaves within the Island of Grenada, and such of the Grenadines as are annexed to the government thereof; for compelling an adequate provision for, and care of
Grenada
1797-12-09
01/21/2023 - 14:46
06/25/2024 - 20:32
An Act to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act to prevent the further sudden increase of Free Negroes and Mulattoes;” and also to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act for the better government of Slaves, and for the more speedy and effectual suppression of
Grenada
1792-04-02
01/21/2023 - 14:35
06/25/2024 - 20:25
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.
Grenada
1789-10-24
01/21/2023 - 14:24
06/25/2024 - 20:19
An Act for obliging the owners of canoes, boats, and pettyaugers, to take out a licence, and give security that the same shall not be the means of enabling Slaves to make their escape, or to be carried off or transported from this Colony; and for
Grenada
1789-10-17
01/21/2023 - 14:19
06/25/2024 - 20:16
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.
Grenada
1791-08-23
01/21/2023 - 14:15
06/25/2024 - 20:22
An Act for the more effectual trial and punishment of Slaves who may have been or may hereafter be concerned in the rebellion and insurrection now existing in this Island.
Grenada
1796-06-07
01/21/2023 - 14:07
06/25/2024 - 20:29
An Act for the punishment of Slaves under sentence of banishment, or confinement to hard labour in chains, who shall escape or attempt to escape from their places of confinement or employment; and to make it lawful for the magistrates to condemn to hard
Grenada
1797-05-13
01/21/2023 - 00:47
06/25/2024 - 20:41
An ACT for establishing a Registry of Negro and other Slaves on the Island of Grenada and its Dependencies.
Grenada
1817-03-31
01/21/2023 - 00:45
07/23/2024 - 19:21
An Act to amend and explain an Act, intituled ‘An Act to amend an Act intituled 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
Grenada
1828-05-19
01/21/2023 - 00:23
07/22/2024 - 20:22
An Act to repeal the Forty-seventh Clause of an Act, intituled ‘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
Grenada
1828-11-24
01/21/2023 - 00:15
07/22/2024 - 20:20
An Act to enable all His Majesty’s free-born coloured Male British Subjects to sit as Jurors on all Trials and Coroner’s Inquests within these Islands.
Grenada
1828-09-24
01/21/2023 - 00:11
07/22/2024 - 20:18
A BILL for establishing a registry of negro and other slaves in the island of St. Vincents and its dependencies. (Incomplete)
St. Vincent
1816-01-01
01/20/2023 - 13:53
04/20/2024 - 18:42
An Act to explain and amend an Act, intituled, “An Act for making Slaves real estate, and for the better government of Slaves and Free Negroes."
St. Vincent
1813-06-19
01/20/2023 - 13:41
06/25/2024 - 20:02
An Act to appoint Commissioners for the purpose of obtaining an exact account of the number of the coloured Free people, and number of Negroes within this Government and its dependencies.
St. Vincent
1805-01-09
01/20/2023 - 13:34
06/25/2024 - 19:59
An Act to punish those who shall murder or maim Slaves, in the Island of Saint Vincent and its dependencies
St. Vincent
1801-09-23
01/20/2023 - 13:30
06/25/2024 - 19:52
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