Laws related to: Jail/confinement

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Title	Year	Location
An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes	1661	Barbados
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negro Slaves	1664	Jamaica
An Act for publique recompence To the masters of Slaves putt to Death by Law	1669	Antigua
An Act against Enticeing servants from their Masters	1676	Antigua
An Act to Prevent the People called Quakers, from bringing Negroes to their Meeting	1676	Barbados
An Act for the Governing of Negroes.	1688	Barbados
An Act for the speedy and easy Prosecution of Slaves committing Capital Crimes.	1692	Virginia
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 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 to inflict further and other Punishments on the Transgressors of two several Acts, the one intituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of slaves, and the other intituled, An Act to prevent the enticing or inveiglng of Slaves from the	1725	Jamaica
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 to prevent the selling of Powder to rebellious, or any other Negroes whatsoever.	1730	Jamaica
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 further Restriction of Slaves, by prohibiting them from planting any Indigo, Cotton, Ginger, Coffee, or Cocoa, and from keeping a public Market on Sundays, and for further restraining licentious Meetings of Negroes.	1736	Montserrat
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 shall be hereafter manumitted or set free, and also for preventing	1739	Barbados
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