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MS-1819 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
• An Act to provide for the safe keeping of
runaway Negroes taken up within the Indian
nations in this state, and other purposes, [pp.
70-71]
• An Act to amend the county court law and
for other purposes, [pp. 72-77]
• An Act for the relief of Hugh Connell,
sheriff of Wilkinson county, [pp. 125-126]
Descriptors: Capital crimes; Courts; Emancipa-
tion; Free Negroes; Hiring of slaves; Highways
and roads; Immigration; Importation of slaves;
Imprisonment; Liquor laws; Mulattoes; Negroes;
Runaways; Sales of slaves; Street repair;
Taxation; Trials; Wilkinson County, MS; Con-
nell, Hugh; Isabella (mulatto girl); Jack (slave);
Nicaisse, Jean Baptiste
MS-1820
Contains:
15• An Act. confirming the emancipation of
three slaves, Diana, Phoeby and Pompey.
[PP. 21-23]
25• An Act to emancipate William, a person
of color, [p. 38]
26• An Act to emancipate Eleanor, a person
of color, [p. 39]
32• An Act to authorise Justices of the Peace,
to punish slaves and free persons of colour,
for certain offences, [pp. 45-46]
33• An Act to establish the Fees of Justices
of the Peace and Constables and for other
purposes, [pp. 46-47, 49]
44• An Act to raise a revenue, [pp. 64-67]
45• An Act for the punishment of Crimes and
Misdemeanors, [pp. 67-69, 82]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free
negroes; Adams County, MS; Assault; Capital
punishment; Courts; Emancipation; Fees; Free
persons of color; Free white males; Liquor laws;
Mulattoes; Negroes; Passes; Pillory; Taxation;
Trading with slaves; Whipping; Wilkinson
County, MS; Amy (free woman of color); Brice,
William; Coulter, John; Diana (slave); Eleanor
(mulatto child); Harper, Wilson B.; Johnson,
William; Phoeby (slave); Pompey (slave); Reid,
James; Reid, Jane; Reid, John; Reid, William;
William (mulatto boy)
224 State Slavery Statutes
MS-1821
Contains:
2• An Act to emancipate Adele, a person of
color, [pp. 4-5]
25• An Act to emancipate Lucinda Jefferson,
[p. 23]
30• An Act to reduce into one the several
Acts concerning last Wills and Testaments,
the duties of executors, administrators and
guardians, and the rights of orphans and
other representatives of deceased persons,
[pp. 37, 62-65]
33• An Act concerning Highways, Ferries
and Bridges, [pp. 84-85, 87-89, 93, 97]
58• An Act to amend "an act to incorporate
the town of Monticello." [pp. 145-148]
• Constitution and form of Government for
the State of Mississippi, [pp. i-iv, xvii-xviii,
xxii]
Descriptors: Apprentices; Courts; Education;
Elections; Emancipation; Free white males;
Hancock County, MS; Highways and roads;
Importation of slaves; Incorporation of cities and
towns; Inheritance; Jefferson County, MS;
Liquor laws; Monticello, MS; Sales of slaves;
Servants; State constitutions; State legislatures;
Adele (quarteroon girl); Favre, Charles; Hop-
kins, John; Jefferson, Lucinda; Morin, John
MS-1822.6
Contains:
• An Act concerning the appointment,
jurisdiction and powers of Justices of the
Peace, within this State, [pp. 1-10]
• An Act to reduce into one the several acts
and parts of acts concerning the Establish-
ment, Jurisdiction and Powers of the
Superior Courts of Law. [pp. 25-27, 56, 76]
• An Act directing the method of proceeding
in the Courts of Equity against absent
debtors and other absent defendants, and for
regulating the proceedings on attachments
against absconding debtors, [pp. 86, 97-98]
• An Act concerning Coroners, [pp. 108-113]
• An Act establishing the fees of certain
officers therein named, [pp. 118-128]