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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes TX-1849
Contains:
• Proclamation by the President of the
Republic of Texas. [1 p.]
• Proclamation by the President of the
Republic of Texas of the Treaty between the
Republic of Texas and Great Britain for the
suppression of African Slave Trade, signed
at London, Nov. 16th, 1840 with two
annexes thereunto, [pp. x-xxv]
Descriptors: Africa and Africans; Boats and
ships; Free persons of color; Great Britain;
Immigration; Importation of slaves; Treaties and
conventions; Houston, Sam
TX-1843
Contains:
• An Act for the relief of Caroline Johnson,
[p. 33]
• An Act supplementary to "An Act
regulating the sale of Runaway Slaves,"
approved January fifth, one thousand eight
hundred and forty-one. [pp. 28-29]
Descriptors: Inheritance; Imprisonment; Runa-
ways; Johnson, Amos; Johnson, Caroline
TX-1845
Contains:
• Joint Resolution giving the consent of the
existing Government to the annexation of
Texas to the United States, [pp. 4-6]
Descriptors: Missouri Compromise
TX-1846
Contains:
• An Act to provide for the appointment of
Patrols and to prescribe their duties and
powers, [pp. 191-195]
• An Act to prevent Slaves from hiring their
own time, or their owners from hiring them
to other Slaves, free Negroes or Mulattoes.
[pp. 195-198]
Descriptors: Arrest; Free Mulattoes; Free
Negroes; Fugitives; Hiring of slaves; Imprison-
ment; Patrols; Runaways; Sales of slaves;
Unlawful assembly; Whipping
TX-1847
Contains:
16• Joint Resolution appropriating four
thousand dollars for the compensation of
Assessors of direct taxes for taking the
enumeration of the inhabitants of the State,
for the year 1847. [pp. 12-13]
38• An Act to amend the third section of an
Act, entitled "an Act concerning Slaves,"
approved February 5th, 1840. [p. 29]
79• An Act better defining the marital rights
of parties, [pp. 77-79]
92• An Act authorizing and requiring the
County Courts to regulate roads, appoint
overseers, etc. [pp. 98-102]
103• An Act to regulate the descent and
distribution of Intestates Estates, [pp.
129-132]
104• Joint Resolution, on the "Proviso,"
Slavery, the Tariff, and the War against
Mexico, [pp. 132-134]
157• An Act to regulate proceedings in the
County Court, pertaining to estates of
deceased persons, [pp. 235, 257-259, 283-
284]
161• An Act to provide for the enumeration
of the inhabitants of the State of Texas, for
the year 1848. [pp. 310-311]
Descriptors: Courts; Cruelty to slaves; Free per-
sons of color; Highways and roads; Inheritance;
Marriage; Persons of color; Slaveholding states;
Taxation
TX-1849
Contains:
50• An Act to amend the 3d, 6th, 7th and 9th
sections of an act authorizing and requiring
the County Courts to regulate roads, appoint
Overseers, etc., approved March 15, 1848.
[pp. 49-50]
64• An Act to provide for the Enumeration
of the Inhabitants of the State of Texas, for
the year 1851. [pp. 74-75]
88• Resolutions of the Legislature of the
State of Texas on the subject of Slavery, [pp.
93-94]
State Slavery Statutes 311