1822 - Edocs
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1822 - Edocs
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come into the actual possession of, and have remained with<br />
the donee or some person claming under such donee.<br />
13. Be it further enacted, .That, Provided always, That<br />
1<br />
existing .<br />
Not to affect ^<br />
nothing in this act contained shall be<br />
alter any adjudication heretofore made, nor<br />
construed to<br />
to effect the<br />
]<br />
interest of any bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration,<br />
or creditor of the donor bvfore the donee hath<br />
been at least three years in possession of such slave or<br />
slaves under such gift.<br />
19. be it further enacted, That, the owners shall be<br />
bound in cases of robbery or other damages caus< d by<br />
their slave or slaves- beside the corporeal punishment<br />
incurred by their said slave or slaves, to pay the said damage:<br />
unless they prefer to abandon the said slave or<br />
slaves to the person robbed, which the said owners shall<br />
be held to choose in five days tVjpin the day when tne sentence<br />
shall have been pronounced.<br />
EDMUND LAW,<br />
Pres : dent of the Legislative Council.<br />
^Approved September 17 th* <strong>1822</strong>.]<br />
WILLIAM P. DUVAL.<br />
Governor of the Territory of Florida.<br />
TEST,<br />
ROBERT MITCHELL,<br />
Clerk of the Legislative Council.<br />
Owners bound<br />
slave's trespass.<br />
AN ACT<br />
Supplementary to an act, ent.tied K<br />
of a Delegate to Congress.<br />
irst<br />
Be it enacted by the 'Governor and Legislative Coun- delete<br />
f<br />
cil of the Territory of Florida, That, so much of the act<br />
entitled<br />
^^ aid no<br />
'* an act providing for the election of a delegate gen<br />
to congress," as relates to the election of a delegate to<br />
congress for two years, shall be, and the same is hereby<br />
repealed, arid that the said Relegate shall at the ensuing<br />
election be elected to serve until the fourth of March next,<br />
and that the subsequent election of the delegate from this<br />
Territory, shall commence on the first Monday of June<br />
next, and on the same day of every second year thereafter,<br />
and that the delegate so elected shall serve for and<br />
during the period of two years.<br />
EDMUND LAW,<br />
President of the Legislative Council.<br />
[approved September 17/7;, 1 .-<br />
'<br />
. WM. P. DUVAL,<br />
Governor of the Territory of Florida.<br />
TEST<br />
ROBERT MITCHELL,<br />
Clerk of the Legislative Council.
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