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

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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
An ACT for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and Slaves. South Carolina
An ACT for the better Securing this Province from Negro Insurrections, and for Encouraging of poor People by employing them in Plantations. South Carolina
(copy) An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and Slaves. South Carolina
An Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province. South Carolina
An additional and explanatory Act to an Act of the General Assembly of this Province, entitled, an Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province. And for continuing such Part of the said Act as is not altered or South Carolina
An Act to prevent the inveigling, stealing and carrying away Negroes and other Slaves in this Province: And to prevent the carrying away of Schooners or Pettiauguas. And also, for repealing so much of an Act, intitled, an Act for the better ordering and South Carolina
An Act to alter and amend an Act, entitled, An Act to oblige Persons having Negroes, or other Effects not their own Property, in their Possession, to render an Account thereof, and to punish such as shall embezzle, conceal, or neglect to render and South Carolina
An Act authorising Persons having or taking up run-away Slaves to send them to the Gaols of the Districts where they may be apprehended, and not to the Work-House of Charleston. South Carolina
An Act to regulate the Payment and Recovery of Debts, and to prohibit the Importation of Negroes, for the Time therein limited. South Carolina
An Act to prevent the purchasing of Cotton from Slaves, and also stolen Cotton from any Person or Persons whatsoever; also laying a Penalty on Persons who shall suffer their Slaves to plant and gather Cotton, or who shall purchase Cotton from Slaves. Montserrat
An act for quieting to purchasers, and those claiming under them, the possession of negro and other slaves purchased under writs of venditioni; and for other purposes. Jamaica
An act to remedy the evils arising to mortgagees and mortagers, by the removal of slaves, mules, cattle, stock, and plantation utensils, under mortgage, and levied on junior writs of venditioni, and for other purposes. Jamaica
An Act to prevent Slaves standing charged with any Crime or Offence from availing themselves, on their Trials, of Manumissions granted them after the Commission of the Crime or Offence for which they stand charged. Jamaica
An act for repealing certain clauses of “An act for repealing an act entitled ‘An act for the better discovering and collecting the arrears of his majesty’s quit-rents; and for the more effectual collecting of the quit-rents hereafter to become Jamaica
An act for the more effectually preventing nuisances on the highways. Jamaica
An act for the better establishment of the clergy of this island; to oblige the justices and vestries to build a church, and a parsonage house, in their respective parishes; and for establishing a fund, or provision, for the support and maintenance of the Jamaica
An act for the ease and relief of jurors and suitors of the supreme and certain other courts within this island; and for other purposes. Jamaica
An act to ascertain who shall be deemed duly qualified to vote for choosing churchwardens and vestrymen of the several parishes of this island; to protect freeholders on the days of holding such elections, and magistrates, vestrymen, and clerks of the Jamaica
An act to authorize and empower the justices and vestry of the several parishes in this island to make and erect pounds, for the better securing of all strays of horses, mares, mules, asses, and horned cattle, belonging to the inhabitants of this island. Jamaica
An act for altering the manner of trying titles to slaves; and for better regulating trials of replevins, in cases of distress and levy of slaves. Jamaica