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

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An ACT for establishing a Registry of Negro and other Slaves on the Island of Grenada and its Dependencies. Grenada
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
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
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
A BILL for establishing a registry of negro and other slaves in the island of St. Vincents and its dependencies. (Incomplete) St. Vincent
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
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
An Act to punish those who shall murder or maim Slaves, in the Island of Saint Vincent and its dependencies St. Vincent
An Act for making Slaves Real Estate, and the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes. St. Vincent
An Act to oblige proprietors and possessors of Slaves, in their own right, or right of others, managers, and conductors of estates, to give in returns of runaways and Obeah men. St. Vincent
An ACT to revive an Act, intituled “An Act to appoint Commissioners for the purpose of obtaining an exact Account of the number of Negroes in this Government and its Dependencies. St. Vincent
“An ACT to repeal the fourth Clause of an Act, intituled, 'An Act to explain and amend an Act, intituled, ‘An Act for making Slaves real Estate, and the better government of Slaves and free Negroes,’ and to amend and re-enact the same'” St. Vincent
“An Act to alter and amend an Act, intituled ‘An Act to repeal an Act intituled, An Act for making Slaves real estate,’ and the first clause of an Act intituled ‘An Act to appoint Commissioners for the purpose of obtaining an exact account of the St. Vincent
An Act to secure the peaceable possession of Negroes and other Slaves, to the inhabitants of this Island; and to prevent and punish the clandestine and illegal detinue of them Barbados
An ACT to remove doubts concerning the trial of Slaves manumitted after the commission of Felonies of which they may stand accused. Barbados
An ACT to repeal part of an Act, intituled, 'An Act for the governing of Negroes,' and for building and regulating a new Cage. Barbados
An ACT for more fully ascertaining the Slave population of the Island of Barbadoes Barbados
An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes Barbados