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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
• An Act to reduce into one the several acts
concerning executions, and for the relief of
Insolvent Debtors, [pp. 128, 133, 139, 150]
• An Act concerning Highways, Ferries and
Bridges. [PP- 151-163]
• An Act providing for opening and repairing
Roads, and building and repairing Bridges,
in Adams County, [pp. 163-168]
• An Act to reduce into one the several acts
' regulating Inns, Taverns, and Houses of
Private Entertainment; and for the restraint
of Tippling Houses, [pp. 168-175]
• An Act to reduce into one the several acts
concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and
Mulattoes. [pp. 179-202]
• An Act to reduce into one the several acts
concerning Patrols, [pp. 202-205]
• An Act for the punishment of Crimes and
Misdemeanors, [pp. 206-207, 221]
• An Act concerning the crimes of Poisoning
and Stabbing and prescribing the punish-
ment thereof, [pp. 221-223]
• An Act for the suppression of Vice, and
punishing the disturbers of Religious Wor-
ship and Sabbath breakers, [pp. 223-225]
• An Act declaring what laws of a public
nature shall be incorporated in the Revised
Code, and providing for the publication
thereof, [pp. 226-228, 232]
• An Act to prevent the importation and
spreading of the Small Pox, and other
contagious diseases, [pp. 243-245]
• An Act to reduce into one the several acts
concerning the writ of "Habeas Corpus,"
and to annul the remedy by writ "de homine
replegiando." [pp. 266-271]
• An Act concerning Conveyances, [pp. 299,
304-308]
• An Act concerning Strays and Drovers,
Horses, Cattle and other Stock, and
directing Stock Brands and Marks to be
recorded, [pp. 322-327]
• An Act to reduce into one act the several
laws to suppress the evil practice of Gaming,
[pp. 335-336, 343]
• An Act to prevent Unlawful Hunting, [pp.
343-344]
• An Act prescribing the mode of ascertain-
ing and assesing [sic] the Taxable Property
within this State, and for collecting the
Public Revenue, [pp. 357-359, 370]
MS-1824
• An Act for the relief of the Sheriff of Pike,
and the Assigneee of the Sheriff of Amite
county, [pp. 34-35]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free
negroes; Adams County, MS; Animals; Appren-
tices; Blue laws; Branding; Capital crimes;
Capital punishment; Courts; Deeds and convey-
ances; Fees; Free Negroes; Free persons of color;
Habeas corpus; Highways and roads; Hunting;
Importation of slaves; Imprisonment; Inheri-
tance; Inquests; Liquor laws; Mortgages; Mu-
lattoes; Murder; Negroes; Passes; Personal debt;
Pike County, MS; Rape; Runaways; Sales of
slaves; Servants; Smallpox; Taxation; Whipping;
Bacot, Laban
MS-1822.12
Contains:
11• An Act to alter and amend an act,
entitled, "An act to reduce into one the
several acts concerning slaves, free negroes
and mulattoes." [pp. 61-64]
13• An Act for the emancipation of negro
woman Betty, [p. 65]
45• An Act to emancipate Hannah Brooks, a
person of color, [p. 113]
46• An Act to emancipate Maria Louisa, a
person of color, [pp. 113-114]
50• An Act concerning public roads in
Adams county, [pp. 119-121, 123-126]
Descriptors: Adams County, MS; Arrest; Bridges
and ferries; Emancipation; Free Negroes; Free
persons of color; Highways and roads; Jefferson
County, MS; Mulattoes; Natchez, MS; Religious
meetings; Trading with slaves; Trials; Unlawful
assembly; Whipping; Andre, Jacque; Betty
(negro woman); Brooks, Hannah (mulatto slave);
Forsythe, John; Maria Louisa (mulatto girl);
Rum, Adam
MS-1824
Contains:
2• An Act to emancipate Frank, a person of
colour, [pp. 5-6]
9• An Act for the relief of Malichi Hagins, a
free man of colour, [pp. 14-15]
13• An Act to emancipate Patience and
Gloster. [pp. 18-19]
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