Laws related to: Felony

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Title	Year	Location
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negro Slaves	1664	Jamaica
Abridgement of laws relating to Slaves.	1669	Virginia
An Act for Repealing one Clause of ye Act Intituled An Act for Preventing ye Barbarison of Negroes	1681	Nevis
An Additional Act to an Act, entitled "An Act for the governing of Negroes"	1692	Barbados
An Act to restrain the Insolences of Slaves and for preventing them from committing any outrages as also the better ordering such Slaves, etc.	1693	Montserrat
An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves.	1696	Jamaica
An act for the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes	1702	Antigua
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves	1705	Virginia
An Act for the better Government of Negroes, and other Slaves	1711	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	1722	St. Christopher
An Act for attainting several Slaves now run away from their Master's Service, and for the better Government of Slaves.	1723	Antigua
An ACT for the more effectual punishing of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders.	1729	Maryland
An Act for the further and better regulating Negroes and other Slaves, and for the more effectual and speedy Way of prosecuting them in criminal Causes	1730	Bermuda
An Act for the Security of the Subject to prevent the Forfeiture of Life and Estate upon killing a Negro or other Slave.	1730	Bermuda
An Act concerning the Payment, out of the Publick Treasury, for Slaves executed and to be executed in this Island for Treasons, Murders, or other Felonies.	1730	Antigua
A further Additional Clause to the Act intituled, An Act for the further and better regulating Negroes and other Slaves; and for the more effectual and speedy Way of prosecuting them in Criminal Causes	1732	Bermuda
An Act for the better governing of Negroes; and the more effectual preventing the inhabitants of this island, from employing their Negroes or other Slaves, in selling or bartering.	1733	Barbados
An act to prevent the abuses committed by entertaining, concealing, or carrying off, any of his majesty’s soldiers, any white men or women servants, or slaves, belonging to any of the inhabitants of this island, without tickets; and for the better	1736	Jamaica
An Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province.	1740	South Carolina
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves.	1741	North Carolina
An Act to explain and amend an Act, entituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves; and for making free and rewarding a Negroe named Hector, belonging to Thomas Fuller, Esq. and paying his said Master the Value of the said Negroe.	1744	Jamaica
An Act to explain Part of an Act, entituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves; and for inflicting further and other Punishment on Persons killing Negroes or Slaves.	1751	Jamaica
An Act for the more effectual punishment of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders, and a supplementary act to an act, entitled, * An Act to prevent the tumultuous meeting and other irregularities of	1751	Maryland
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	1754	South Carolina
An Act to remedy the Evils arising from irregular Assemblies of Slaves, and to prevent their possessing Arms and Ammunition and going from Place to Place without Tickets, and for preventing the Practice of Obeah, and to restrain Overseers from leaving the	1760	Jamaica