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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes VA-1846
190• An Act concerning Josiah Chambers,
[p. 148]
191• An Act concerning William L. Green of
Halifax county, [p. 148]
192• An Act releasing the claim of the
commonwealth to certain real estate, and
the proceeds thereof, devised by Lucy
Slaughter, deceased, a free woman of colour.
[P- 149]
202• An Act concerning Baldwin Foster of
the county of Matthews, [p. 156]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free persons
of color; Aged and infirm slaves; Appropriations;
Capital punishment; Courts; Free Negroes;
Fugitive slave laws, states; Fugitives; Halifax
County, VA; Imprisonment; Inheritance; Lex-
ington, VA; Lunatic asylums; Matthews County,
VA; Mulattoes; New York State; Persons of
color; Prince Edward County, VA; Richmond,
VA; Robbery and theft; Rockbridge County, VA;
Sales of slaves; Taxation; Whipping; Anderson,
Edmund; Armstead, John; Chambers, Josiah;
Clara (slave); Dinah (slave); Foster, Baldwin;
Green, Hannah J.; Green, Thomas J.; Green,
William L.; James (slave); Ripley, David;
Slaughter, Lucy (free woman of color)
VA-1846
Contains:
1• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 3, 8]
4• An Act appropriating the public revenue.
[pp. 9-11]
33• An Act to amend for the counties of
Loudon, Fairfax and Kanawha, the act for
the establishment of district free schools,
passed February 25th, 1846. [pp. 34-36]
74• An Act authorizing jailors to receive into
their jails slaves taken under attachment, [p.
66]
86• An Act concerning oysters and terrapins
and the penalties in regard to them. [pp.
71-75]
88• An Act changing the laws in relation to
pilots, [pp. 75-77]
268• An Act concerning Thomas Brown and
James Saunders of the county of Lancaster.
[p. 229]
270• An Act authorizing the payment of a
certain sum of money to Samuel Patterson,
[p. 229]
286• An Act concerning Jane Hailstock. [p.
234]
287• An Act for the relief of James L.
Campbell, [p. 234]
288• An Act permitting Julia Ann Wilson, a
woman of colour, to remain in the
commonwealth, [p. 234]
289• An Act allowing Thomas Duncan,
George Scott and Lucy, free persons of
colour, to remain in the commonwealth, [p.
235]
1• Preamble and resolutions relative to the
prohibition by the congress of the United
States of slavery in any territory to be
acquired by conquest or treaty. Adopted
March 8, 1847. [p. 236]
2• Resolution requesting the governor to
return certain resolutions to the state of
New Hampshire. Adopted January 18,
1847. [p. 236]
3• Resolution requesting the governor to
return certain resolutions to the state of
Vermont. Adopted February 5, 1847.
[p.237]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free persons
of color; Aged and infirm slaves; Appropriations;
Arson; Augusta County, VA; Capital punish-
ment; Education; Emancipation; Fairfax County,
VA; Fish and fishing; Free persons of color;
Halifax County, VA; Hampshire County, VA;
Imprisonment; Kanawha County, VA; Lancaster
County, VA; Loudoun County, VA; Missouri
Compromise; New Hampshire; Norfolk County,
VA; Richmond, VA; Rockbridge County, VA;
Runaways; Seamen; Servants; Slaveholding
states; Stafford County, VA; Taxation; Territo-
ries; Vermont; Brown, Thomas; Campbell, James
L. (free person of color); Carney, Richard;
Duncan, Thomas (person of color); Ellis, Joel;
Hailstock, Jane (free person of color); Key, John
(free person of color); Lucy (free person of
color); Mooney, James J.; M'Williams, Sam
(slave); Patterson, Samuel; Saunders, James;
Scott, George (free person of color); Sheppard,
John; Viney, Robert (free person of color);
Wilson, Henry; Wilson, Julia Ann (woman of
color)
State Slavery Statutes 345