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VA-1827 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
VA-1827
Contains:
1• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 3-4]
2• An Act appropriating the public revenue,
[pp. 5-6]
34• An Act to amend the act to reduce into
one, the several acts concerning guardians,
orphans, curators, infants, masters and
apprentices, passed February the eight-
eenth, one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen, and for other purposes, [pp. 26-27]
37• An Act concerning the trial and
punishment of slaves, free negroes and
mulattoes, in certain cases, [pp. 29-30]
131• An Act to establish the town of Mount
Sidney in the county of Augusta, [pp. 97-98]
143• An Act authorising a sale of the real
estate of Bat Dandridge, deceased, [p. 108]
153• An Act concerning William Ashby. [p.
114]
163• An Act concerning William Morgan,
jailor of Nelson county, [pp. 117-118]
166• An Act allowing Alice E. Farley to
remove from this State certain slaves held by
her for life. [p. 119]
167• An Act allowing Ben Hord, a free man
of colour, to remain in the Commonwealth,
[pp. 119-120]
168• An Act allowing David Ward, a free
man of colour, to remain in this Common-
wealth, [p. 120]
169• An Act allowing Lydia, a free woman of
colour, to remain in this Commonwealth for
a limited time. [pp. 120-121]
170• An Act allowing certain persons of
colour emancipated by the will of Jane Barr
to remain in the Commonwealth for a
limited time. [pp. 121-122]
Descriptors: Aged and infirm slaves; Appropria-
tions; Augusta County, VA; Capital punishment;
Culpeper County, VA; Emancipation; Free
Negroes; Free persons of color; Greenbrier
County, VA; Guardians; Henrico County, VA;
Importation of slaves; Imprisonment; Incorpora-
tion of cities and towns; Inheritance; Middlesex
County, VA; Mount Sidney, VA; Mulattoes;
Nelson County, VA; Pittsylvania County, VA;
334 State Slavery Statutes
Prince George County, VA; Robbery and theft;
Runaways; Sales of slaves; Taxation; Trials;
Whipping; Ashby, William; Ball, William; Barr,
Jane; Benjamin (slave); Billy (slave); Calvin,
John W.; Dandridge, Bartholomew (free person
of color); Dandridge, Charity (slave); Dandridge,
Harrison (slave); Dandridge, Julia (slave); Davy
(slave); Dick (slave); Edith (slave); Farley, Alice
E.; Farley, Philip; Grandison (slave); Green,
John W.; Harriet (slave); Hord, Ben (person of
color); Lydia (free person of color); Mary (slave);
Morgan, William; Morrow, William; Nancy
(slave); Ross, James; Smith, Richard G.; Ward,
David (person of color); Ward, John; William
(slave)
VA-1828
Contains:
1• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 3-5]
2• An Act appropriating the public revenue,
[pp. 5-6]
17• An Act concerning the Overseers of the
Poor. [pp. 22-23]
21• An Act to amend the several act)
concerning slaves, free negroes and mu-
lattoes. [pp. 25-26]
22• An Act to amend the act, entitled, "an
act to punish arson, the burning or setting
fire to houses in towns, the malicious
burning [of] any house or houses, or stacks,
and certain house-breakers, and accessories
to felonies, and receivers of stolen goods."
[p. 26]
128• An Act to establish a town at the Great
Bridge, in the county of Norfolk, [pip.
125-127]
133• An Act appointing trustees of the town
of Port Royal, in the county of Caroline,
with certain powers, [pp. 129-130]
137• An Act appointing trustees for the town
of Stanardsville, in the county of Orange,
and for other purposes, [p. 132]
144• An Act to establish the town of Fayette,
in the county of Montgomery, [pp. 137-138]
156• An Act concerning the administrators
and securities of Jerman Baker, late
Treasurer of the Commonwealth, [pp.
147-148]