Laws related to: Poverty

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Title	Year	Location
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves	1705	Virginia
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 for the better Government of Free Negroes, and for discouraging and prohibiting of Traffic with them, and with all Slaves.	1761	Montserrat
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.	1779	Montserrat
An ACT to repeal an act, intituled “An act to repeal several acts and clauses of acts respecting slaves, and for the better order and government of slaves, and for other purposes and also to repeal the several acts and clauses of acts, which were	1792	Jamaica
An ACT for rendering more effectual two certain Acts of this Island respecting Foreign Slaves and Foreigners of a certain description, one passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and the other passed in the year one thousand eight	1814	Jamaica
Proclamation.	1814	Mauritius
An Act to alter and amend the Slave Laws of this island.	1826	Jamaica
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.	1827	Mauritius