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

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An act for making free and rewarding a negro woman slave named Attea, the property of the heirs of George Williams, esquire, deceased, and for paying her value. Jamaica
An ACT for raising several Sums of Money, and applying the same to several uses, for subsisting for One Year the Officers and Soldiers of His Majesty’s Fiftieth and Sixtieth Regiments of Foot, quartered in this Island. Jamaica
An Act for the better Government of Slaves and free Negroes Antigua
An Act to repeal a certain Act of this Island concerning Negroes Antigua
An Act for the Trial of Criminal Slaves Antigua
An Act for the better Government of Negroes, and other Slaves St. Christopher
An Act for attainting Several Negroes therein mentioned ; and for the more effectual preventing Negroes from running away from their Masters Service ; and for explaining and rendering more effectual an Act, intituled, An Act for the better Government of St. Christopher
An act for regulating the manumission of negro, mulatto, and other slaves; and to oblige the owners to make a provision for them during their lives. Jamaica
An Act to prevent Captains, Commanders, or Masters of Ships, and all other Vessels whatsoever, from clandestinely carrying off this Island, Negro or other Slaves. Jamaica
An act for the better regulation of executors and administrators, in the defence of actions or suits brought against them in right of their respective testators or intestates estates; and for other purposes. Jamaica
An act to regulate the devises of negro, mulatto, and other slaves, in wills. Jamaica
An Act for the speedy and easy Prosecution of Slaves committing Capital Crimes. Virginia
An act to explain and amend an act, entitled, “An act for recovering and extending the trade with the Indian settlements in America, and preventing for the future some evil practices formerly committed in that trade. Jamaica
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves Virginia
An act to prevent improper levies being made on the negroes or other slaves of minors; and to regulate the sales of slaves taken on writs against persons who have only an estate for a term of years, or for their own lives, or for the lives of any other Jamaica
"An act to repeal an act entitled, ["An act to repeal an act entitled,] 'An act to prevent negro and other runaway slaves from being harboured and entertained, by establishing a constant patrolling party in each parish throughout this island; and to Jamaica
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes. Virginia
An act to repeal an act entitled, 'An act for vesting runaway slaves, not claimed by the proprietors within a certain time, in his majesty, to be employed in the service of the public;' and to direct how those slaves, now vested in his majesty by virtue Jamaica
Abridgement of laws relating to Slaves. Virginia
Abridgement of laws relating to Run-aways. Virginia
An Act declaring Slaves to be real Estate. Virginia
An Act to explain and amend the Act for declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian Slaves, within this Dominion, to be real Estate; and Part of one other Act, intituled An Act for the Distribution of Intestates Estates, declaring Widows Rights to their Virginia
An ACT to revive and extend an Act, entitled an Act to prohibit the importation of Slaves from Africa, or other places beyond sea, into this State, for two years; and also to prohibit the importation or bringing in of Negro Slaves, Mulattoes, Indians, South Carolina
An ACT to prohibit the importation of slaves from Africa or other places beyond sea, into this state for two years, and also to prohibit the importation or bringing in of negro slaves, mulattoes, Indians, Moors or mustizoes bound for a term of years South Carolina
An ACT inhibiting the Trading with Servants and Slaves. South Carolina