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TN-1849 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
114• An Act to provide punishment for the
commission of rape by a free negro, and for
the punishment of a negro guilty of being an
accessary [sic] before the fact, to murder in
the first degree, [p. 304]
120• An Act to amend the laws in relation to
the sales of property under execution, [p.
315]
271• An Act to defray the expenses of the
General Assembly, with the Report of the
Committee on Finance annexed, [pp. 553,
555, 560] •
Descriptors: Appropriations; Arrest; Capital pun-
ishment; Courts; Emancipation; Fees; Free
Negroes; Fugitives; Giles County, TN; Incorpo-
ration of cities and towns; Mulattoes; Negroes;
Patrols; Pulaski, TN; Rape; Runaways; Sales of
slaves; Taxation; Faulkner, William (free person
of color)
TN-1851
Contains:
13• An Act to incorporate the City of
Chattanooga and for other purposes, [pp. 15,
18-20]
74• An Act to incorporate the Nashville and
North Western Railroad Company, [pp. 82,
91-92]
97• An Act to prevent abuses in taking up
slaves as runaways, [p. 120]
158• An Act to provide for free indigent
children of color, in this State, [p. 235]
160• An Act to construe the laws of this State
in relation to free persons of color, [p. 237]
174• An Act to amend the Criminal Laws of
this State, [pp. 251-253]
179• An Act to amend the 2d section of an
act passed the 28th January, 1850, chap. 20,
on appeals, [p. 259]
244• An Act to charter the Lexington and
Knoxville Railroad Company, and for other
purposes, [pp. 385, 396, 403]
261• An Act to amend the laws regulating the
fees of Justices of the Peace and Constables,
and for other purposes, [pp. 427-428]
264• An Act to incorporate the Grayson
Turnpike Company in Marion county, and
to incorporate the Brownsville and Raleigh
Plank Road Company, [pp. 434, 439]
304 State Slavery Statutes
279• An Act to amend the several acts passed
to incorporate the town of Knoxville, and
for other purposes, [pp. 492-494]
300• An Act to direct and authorize the
Secretary of State to procure and furnish to
new counties certain decisions of the
Supreme Court of this State, and for other
purposes, [pp. 570-571]
303• An Act to incorporate the Nashville and
Cincinnati Railroad Company, [pp. 574,
584, 588]
370• An Act to defray the expenses of the
General Assembly of the State of Tennes-
see, with the report of the Committee on
Finance annexed, [pp. 687, 690-691]
1• Federal Resolutions passed by the General
Assembly of the State of Tennessee. Passed
February 28, 1852. [pp. 719-721]
Descriptors: Appropriations; Arrest; Capital pun-
ishment; Chattanooga, TN; Emancipation; Fees;
Free Negroes; Free persons of color; Fugitive
Slave Law, Federal; Grayson Turnpike Co.;
Highways and roads; Imprisonment; Incorpora-
tion of cities and towns; Incorporation of
companies; Knoxville, TN; Lexington and
Knoxville Railroad Co.; Liquor laws; Marion
County, TN; Murder; Nashville and Cincinnati
Railroad Co.; Nashville and North Western
Railroad Co.; Non-slaveholding states; Patrols;
Railroads; Rape; Runaways; Sales of slaves;
Secession; Taxation; Whipping; George (colored
boy); Thompson (colored boy)
TN-1853
Contains:
17• An Act to incorporate the town of
Sommerville in the county of Fayette, [pp.
63, 65, 69]
50• An Act to regulate the emancipation of
slaves, and to provide for the transportation
of free persons of color to the western coast
of Africa, [pp. 121-122]
82• An Act for the better protection of the
bodies of deceased persons, [pp. 149-150]
88• An Act to repeal an act entitled an act,
to repeal so much of the forty-eighth section
of an act now in force in this State, as
provides for the trial of Slaves for Capital
offences, and directing the mode of trial in
future, passed 9th November, 1815. [p. 157]