Laws related to: Without benefit of clergy

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An Act to restrain the Insolences of Slaves and for preventing them from committing any outrages as also the better ordering such Slaves, etc. Montserrat
An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves. Jamaica
An Act for the better Government of Slaves and free Negroes Antigua
An act for the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes Antigua
An Act for the better Government of Negroes, and other Slaves St. Christopher
An ACT for the more effectual punishing of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders. Maryland
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 Jamaica
An Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province. South Carolina
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 Maryland
A Supplementary and explanatory act to an act, entitled, *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 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 South Carolina
An Act for suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves; and for preventing Slaves being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for enabling the Commander in Chief, or President of the Council for the Time being, to send out Dominica
An Act to prevent Sedition, and punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public Peace South Carolina
An Act for obliging the owners of canoes, boats, and pettyaugers, to take out a licence, and give security that the same shall not be the means of enabling Slaves to make their escape, or to be carried off or transported from this Colony; and for Grenada
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 Jamaica
An Act to consolidate and bring into one Act the several laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further protection and security; for altering the mode of trial of Slaves charged with capital offences; for suspending the... Bahamas
An act to prevent any intercourse and communication between the slaves of this island, and foreign slaves of a certain description and for other purposes. Jamaica
An Act for the banishing of sundry runaway Slaves now in confinement, and also for the banishment of such runaways of certain descriptions as shall hereafter be taken or surrender themselves, and for other purposes. Dominica
An Act to punish those who shall murder or maim Slaves, in the Island of Saint Vincent and its dependencies St. Vincent
An Act to oblige proprietors and possessors of Slaves, in their own right, or right of others, managers, and conductors of estates, to give in returns of runaways and Obeah men. St. Vincent
An ACT for the protection, subsisting, clothing, and for the better order, regulation and government of Slaves, and for other purposes. Jamaica
An Act to explain and amend an Act, intituled, “An Act for making Slaves real estate, and for the better government of Slaves and Free Negroes." St. Vincent
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 Jamaica
An act for the subsistence, clothing, and the better regulation and government of slaves; for enlarging powers of the council of protection; for preventing the improper transfer of slaves; and for other purposes. Jamaica
An act for regulating the sale of gunpowder and fire-arms. Jamaica