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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes VA-1855
Hiring of slaves; Immigration; Imprisonment;
Lynchburg, VA; Mulattoes; Negroes; Richmond,
VA; Riots and disorders; Searches and seizures;
Spotsylvania County, VA; State constitutions;
Staunton, VA; Taxation; Town charters; Unlaw-
ful assembly; Whipping
VA-1852.11
Contains:
7• An Act concerning the assessment and
collection of the public revenue, [pp. 9-10,
12-15, 18-19]
8• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
the government, [pp. 19-20, 23-24]
9• An Act appropriating the public revenue
for the fiscal year 1852-3. [pp. 24-25]
25• An Act concerning the registration of
births, marriages and deaths, [pp. 40-43]
33• An Act concerning sales, by officers, of
goods and chattels, [p. 51]
55• An Act establishing a colonization board
and making an appropriation for the
removal of free negroes from the common-
wealth, [pp. 58-59]
477• An Act imposing a tax on dogs in the
county of Isle of Wight, [pp. 309-310]
479• An Act to authorize the county courts
of Fairfax, Prince William, Marion, Augus-
ta, Monongalia and Jefferson to impose a tax
on dogs. [pp. 310-312]
9• Resolution relative to prosecuting the
appeal in the Lemmon slave case. [p. 359]
Descriptors: Appropriations; Augusta County,
VA; Births; Capital punishment; Courts; Death;
Dogs; Fairfax County, VA; Free Negroes; Free
white males; Hiring of negroes; Immigration; Isle
of Wight County, VA; Jefferson County, VA;
Liberia; Marion County, VA; Monongalia
County, VA; Mulattoes; New York State; Prince
William County, VA; Sales of slaves; Taxation;
Virginia Colonization Society; Whipping; Lem-
mon, Jonathan
VA-1853
Contains:
2• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 3-8]
3• An Act appropriating the public revenue
for the fiscal years 1853-4 and 1854-5. [pp.
8-10]
175• An Act authorizing the county court of
Culpeper to levy a tax on dogs. [pp.
110-111]
207• An Act providing for the voluntary
enslavement of Willis and Andrew, free
persons of color of the county of Lunenburg.
[pp. 131-132]
Descriptors: Dogs; Appropriations; Capital pun-
ishment; Culpeper County, VA; Free Negroes;
Free white males; Hiring of negroes; Immigra-
tion; Liberia; Lunenburg County, VA; Manumis-
sion; Mulattoes; Taxation; Voluntary
enslavement; Andrew (free person of color);
Doswell, David; Willis (free person of color)
VA-1855
Contains:
9• An Act imposing taxes for the support of
government, [pp. 11, 14, 16]
17• An Act appropriating the public revenue
for the fiscal years 1855-6 and 1856-7. [pp.
23-26]
46• An Act providing for the voluntary
enslavement of the free negroes of the
commonwealth, [p. 37-38]
47• An Act providing additional protection
for the slave property of citizens of this
commonwealth, [pp. 38-41]
48• An Act to amend the 24th, 25th, 26th,
27th and 28th sections of chapter 192 of the
Code of Virginia, so as more effectually to
prevent the escape of slaves, [pp. 41-43]
49• An Act to amend the 4th section of
chapter 105 of the Code so as to increase the
rewards for the arrest of runaway slaves, [pp.
43-44]
50• An Act to prohibit citizens of Virginia
from hiring their slaves in the district of
Columbia, [p. 45]
51• An Act to prevent the sale of poisonous
drugs to free negroes and slaves, [p. 45]
217• An Act to authorize the county court of
Richmond to hire out the free negroes for
certain purposes, [p. 147]
State Slavery Statutes 349