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VA-1839.1 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
Washington County, VA; Burk (person of color);
Emma (person of color); Hardy, Louise (free
person of color); Purdie, Eliza (or Lizzie, free
person of color)
VA-1839.12
Contains:
1• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 3-5]
2• An Act amending and reducing into one
act the several acts and parts of acts
concerning the taxes on licenses to keepers
of ordinaries and houses of private enter-
tainment; to merchants; to vendue masters;
to brokers; to venders of lottery tickets; to
hawkers and pedlars; to exhibitors of public
shows; on law process; on notarial seals, and
certain other subjects, [pp. 5, 12, 19]
3• An Act appropriating the public revenue,
[pp. 19-21]
61• An Act providing for the payment of
slaves condemned to death or transporta-
tion, [pp. 51-52]
176• An Act appointing trustees for the town
of New Market in the county of Shenandoah
and prescribing their powers and duties, [pp.
133-135]
187• An Act concerning the estate of George
E. Harrison, deceased, [pp. 146-147]
194• An Act concerning Peter Kremer. [p.
150]
196• An Act for the relief of Verlinda Perry.
[P. 151]
200• An Act concerning Thomas Beasley, a
free man of colour, [p. 153]
• Preamble and resolutions relative to the
demand by the executive of Virginia upon
the executive of the state of New York, for
the surrender of three fugitives from justice.
Adopted March 17, 1840. [pp. 155-169]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free persons
of color; Abolitionists and abolition societies;
Aged and infirm slaves; Appropriations; Banish-
ment; Boats and ships; Brandon, VA; Capital
punishment; Constitutional law; Fugitives; Giles
County, VA; Imprisonment; Inheritance; Lou-
doun County, VA; Mulattoes; Negroes; New
Market, VA; New York State; Non-slaveholding
states; Peddlers; Prince George County, VA;
342 State Slavery Statutes
Runaways; Servants; Shenandoah County, VA;
Slaveholding states; Taxation; Weapons; Win-
chester, VA; Beasley, Thomas (free man of
color); Colley, John G.; Gansey, Isaac; Harrison,
George E.; Harrison, Isabella H.; Harrison,
William B.; Isaac (slave); Johnson, Peter;
Kremer, Peter; Perry, Verlinda; Smith, Edward;
Taylor, George K.
VA-1840
Contains:
1• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 3-5]
2• An Act reducing into one the several acts
prescribing the mode of ascertaining the
taxable property within the commonwealth,
and of collecting the public revenue, [pp. 5,
29]
5• An Act appropriating the public revenue,
[pp. 31-32, 34]
72• An Act to prevent the citizens of New
York from carrying slaves out of this
commonwealth, and to prevent the escape
of persons charged with the commission of
any crime, [pp. 79-82]
73• An Act increasing the reward for
apprehending runaways in certain cases, [p.
82]
74• An Act to amend the act reducing into
one the several acts concerning slaves, free
negroes and mulattoes. [pp. 82-84]
159• An Act for the relief of Bryan Lester.
[pp. 154-155]
• Resolution for transmitting to the governors
of the several states of the Union certain
correspondence, reports and act of assembly
relative to the controversy between this
state and the state of New York. Adopted
March 15, 1841. [p. 157]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free persons
of color; Aged and infirm slaves; Appropriations;
Boats and ships; Capital punishment; Free
Negroes; Fugitive slave laws, states; Fugitives;
Immigration; Mecklenburg County, VA; Mu-
lattoes; New York State; Runaways; Taxation;
Gansey, Isaac; Jacob (slave); Johnson, Peter;
Lester, Bryan; Smith, Edward