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Title	Location	Date	Added Sort ascending	Changed
An Act for more fully ascertaining the Slave population, &c. &c.	Demerara	1817-03-18	02/20/2023 - 01:27	07/23/2024 - 19:43
A Proclamation.	Trinidad	1827-05-28	02/20/2023 - 01:23	07/23/2024 - 20:11
Proclamation.	Mauritius	1814-12-30	02/20/2023 - 01:20	07/23/2024 - 20:22
For establishing, under a fix penal clause, the weight of the chains and fetters, or iron rings, which the inhabitants are authorized, by the existing laws, to put upon their slaves; and also for preventing the infliction of any punishment upon a slave	Mauritius	1826-12-13	02/20/2023 - 01:16	07/22/2024 - 20:41
For amending, by certain modifications, the laws and regulations relative to emancipations at the island of Mauritius and its Dependencies; and for establishing, by a fixed regulation, and in one and the same ordinance, all that regards such emancipation.	Mauritius	1827-01-27	02/20/2023 - 01:12	07/23/2024 - 20:20
Ordinance in Council for Improving the condition of the Slave Population of Mauritius.	Mauritius	1827-09-01	02/20/2023 - 01:03	07/23/2024 - 19:52
For repealing all laws, regulations and ordinances in force relative to the Emancipation of Slaves at the Mauritius, and for embodying into a single law every formality required to effect such emancipations for the future.	Mauritius	1828-05-14	02/20/2023 - 01:01	07/22/2024 - 20:39
Ordinance of His Excellency the Governor in Council. FOR amending the dispositions of the article 20th of the letters patent of the month of December 1723, and the 15th article of the Ordinance des Administrateurs généraux of the islands of France and	Mauritius	1828-01-09	02/20/2023 - 00:59	07/23/2024 - 20:18
First Subsidiary Ordinance to His Majesty’s Order in Council, establishing a Consolidated Slave Law.	St. Lucia	1830-04-26	02/19/2023 - 21:00	07/23/2024 - 20:43
Second Supplementary Ordinance to His Majesty’s Order in Council, establishing a Consolidated Slave Law.	St. Lucia	1830-05-03	02/19/2023 - 20:58	07/23/2024 - 20:41
Order in Council Defining the method of paying the Expenses of safe Custody and Prosecution in cases of Complaints made by Slaves which are not established, or which are proved to be malicious and unfounded.	St. Lucia	1831-08-01	02/19/2023 - 20:52	07/23/2024 - 20:34
Order in Council Prescribing the Treatment of Slave Evidences.	St. Lucia	1831-08-01	02/19/2023 - 20:50	01/29/2024 - 16:40
Order of Government Pointing out the Days which are to be allowed to Plantation Slaves in Saint Lucia, and fixing the Weekly Market Day, &c. &c. &c.	St. Lucia	1832-01-01	02/19/2023 - 20:47	07/23/2024 - 20:31
Proclamation (regarding the Order of The King in Council of the 2d of November last.)	St. Lucia	1831-12-24	02/19/2023 - 20:41	07/23/2024 - 20:29
A Proclamation by his Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Anthony Bozon, Major 93d Regiment, Senior Officer administering the Government of the Island of St. Lucia, &c. &c.	St. Lucia	1832-01-18	02/19/2023 - 20:39	04/20/2024 - 19:12
Order in Council, WHEREBY several of the provisions contained in the Order of the 18th February, by which a new slave law was established for the Island of St. Lucia, are revised and amended.	St. Lucia	1827-04-24	02/19/2023 - 20:37	07/23/2024 - 20:16
An act for the subsistence, clothing, and the better regulation and government of slaves; for enlarging powers of the council of protection; for preventing the improper transfer of slaves; and for other purposes.	Jamaica	1816-12-19	02/19/2023 - 19:23	10/03/2024 - 23:31
An act for establishing courts and directing the marshal’s proceedings.	Jamaica	1681-01-01	02/19/2023 - 19:20	10/04/2024 - 19:03
An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves.	Jamaica	1696-01-01	02/19/2023 - 19:18	09/24/2024 - 15:54
An Act for raising Parties to Suppress Rebellious and Runaway Negroes.	Jamaica	1699-01-01	02/19/2023 - 18:43	07/21/2024 - 21:04
An Act for the more effectual raising Parties, to pursue and destroy Rebellious and Runaway Slaves.	Jamaica	1702-01-01	02/19/2023 - 18:32	04/20/2024 - 19:11
A Supplemental Act to an Act entitled “An Act to repeal several Acts and Clauses of Acts respecting Slaves, and for consolidating and bringing into one Act the several laws relating thereto, and for the better Order and Government of Slaves, and for	Barbados	1826-10-17	02/19/2023 - 00:07	04/20/2024 - 19:11
An Act for rending more effectual, and for supplying many defects in the several Laws of this Island, for the governing of Negroes	Barbados	1749-08-09	02/19/2023 - 00:02	04/09/2024 - 11:52
An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Governing of Negroes.’	Barbados	1767-07-24	02/18/2023 - 23:58	04/20/2024 - 19:10
An Act to amend an Act of this Island, entitled ‘An Act for amending an Act of this Island, entitled an Act for the governing of Negroes, and for providing a proper Maintenance and Support for such Negroes, Indians, or Mulattoes, as hereafter shall be	Barbados	1783-01-21	02/18/2023 - 23:53	04/20/2024 - 19:10