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VA-1847 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
VA-1847
Contains:
I• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 3, 9]
6• An Act appropriating the public revenue.
- [pp. 11, 12, 14]
108• An Act to amend the act concerning
coloured apprentices, [pp. 82-83]
120• An Act to reduce into one the several
acts concerning crimes and punishments,
and proceedings in criminal cases, [pp. 93,
97, 101-103]
8• Of offences against chastity, morality and
decency, [pp. 110-112]
10• Of offences against public policy, [pp.
113, 117-120]
II• General provisions concerning crimes
and punishments, [pp. 121, 123]
12• Of offences by slaves, [pp. 125-126]
13• Of certain offences by free negroes and
mulattoes. [p. 126]
14• Of proceedings to prevent the commis-
sion of crimes, [pp. 127, 132, 138]
20• Of indictments, presentments and
information and process thereon, [pp. 142,
160]
25• Of general provisions concerning pro-
ceedings in criminal cases, [pp. 160-161]
26• Of criminal proceedings against slaves,
free negroes and mulattoes. [pp. 162-164]
308• An Act for the relief [of] Polly
Littlepage Smith and her children, [pp.
328-330]
329• An Act authorizing the payment of a
certain sum of money to Sarah C. Byars,
executrix of George Byars, deceased, [p.
339]
374• An Act to amend the act, entitled "an
act allowing Thomas Duncan, George Scott
and Lucy, free persons of colour, to remain
in the commonwealth," passed March 22,
1847. [p. 351]
5• Resolution instructing the directors of the
lunatic asylums to report to the next general
assembly upon the propriety and cost of
providing for the maintenance and cure of
insane persons of colour in their respective
asylums or elsewhere. Adopted January 11,
1848. [p. 354]
346 State Slavery Statutes
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free persons
of color; Abolitionists and abolition societies;
Aged and infirm slaves; Apprentices; Appropria-
tions; Assault; Boats and ships; Bridges and
ferries; Capital punishment; Courts; Drugs and
medicine; Education; Emancipation; Free
Negroes; Free persons of color; Hiring of slaves;
Immigration; Importation of slaves; Imprison-
ment; Inheritance; Insurrection; Liquor laws;
Lunatic asylums; Marriage; Mulattoes; Murder;
Negroes; Non-slaveholding states; Norfolk
County, VA; Persons of color; Poverty; Rape;
Riots and disorders; Runaways; Seamen; Sear-
ches and seizures; Smyth County, VA; South-
ampton County, VA; Taxation; Trials; Unlawful
assembly; Weapons; Whipping; Amy (slave);
Byars, George; Byars, Sarah C; Carney, Richard;
Clements, Richard P.; Jim (slave); Lucy (free
person of color); Peggy (slave); Pettway, Henry;
Smith, Charles; Smith, Polly Littlepage; Stephen
(slave)
VA-1848
Contains:
1• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 3, 6]
2• An Act appropriating the public revenue,
[pp. 6-8]
122• An Act to amend the act, passed April
4th, 1848, entitled "an act amending the act,
entitled an act concerning oysters and
terrapins and the penalties in regard to
them," passed March 22d, 1847, and for
other purposes, [pp. 75-77]
124• An Act concerning the taking of oysters
in York, Poquosin and Back rivers, [p. 78]
125• An Act concerning oysters in Nan-
semond county, [pp. 78-81]
279• An Act incorporating the Thomrose
cemetery company at the town of Staunton.
[pp. 206-207]
306• An Act for the relief of Alexander
Goode and Minerva J. Goode, his wife. [pp.
239-241]
311• An Act for the relief of Martha Watts.
[pp. 243-244]
353• An Act for the relief of Wilson
Anderson, [p. 255]