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VA-1859 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
441• An Act for the relief of Samuel C.
Young of Charlestown. [p. 656]
1• Resolution declining to interpose to delay
the Execution of the Sentence of the Court
pronounced upon certain Prisoners for
Crimes committed at Harpers Ferry. Adopt-
ed December 7, 1859. [p. 691]
3• Resolution assuring the Representatives of
this State in Congress, of the warm
sympathies of the General Assembly.
Adopted December 22, 1859. [pp. 692]
16• Joint Resolution tendering the Thanks of
the General Assembly to the Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road Company, [p. 700]
17• Resolution to provide for the Compensa-
tion of Colonel J. Lucius Davis, for his
Services at Charlestown in the County of
Jefferson, [p. 700]
18• Resolution directing the Commission to
audit and pay Claims incident to the Harper
Ferry Invasion, to provide Uniforms for
Jefferson Guards, [pp. 700-701]
31• Resolutions in Response to the Request
of South Carolina and Mississippi, for a
Conference of the Southern States, [pp.
707-708]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free persons
of color; Aged and infirm slaves; Appropriations;
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co.; Boats and
ships; Bridges and ferries; Capital punishment;
Charlestown, VA; Culpeper County, VA; De-
fense; Dogs; Fish and fishing; Free Negroes;
Fugitive slave laws, states; Fugitives; Giles
County, VA; Hanover County, VA; Harper's
Ferry Raid; Hiring of negroes; Imprisonment;
Insurrection; Jefferson County, VA; Jefferson
Guards; Licenses; Liquor laws; Manumission;
Martinsburg, VA; Mississippi; Non-slaveholding
states; Orange County, VA; Pensions; Runa-
ways; Sales of slaves; Slaveholding states; South
Carolina; Taxation; Voluntary enslavement;
Whipping; Boerley, Bridget; Brown, Martha (free
negro); Colvin, Nelson; Davis, J. Lucius; Hunter,
Andrew; Mary (negro woman); Richardson,
George W.; Rowin, John W.; Young, Samuel C.
VA-1861.1
Contains:
1• An Act imposing Taxes for the Support of
Government, [pp. 3-4, 14, 17, 20]
352 State Slavery Statutes
2• An Act making Appropriations for
Deficiency in former Appropriations, and
for defraying Expenses of the General
Assembly and Convention now in session,
[pp. 20, 21, 23, 24]
3• An Act to provide for electing Members of
a Convention, and to convene the same. [pp.
24-27]
26• An Act for the Voluntary Enslavement of
Free Negroes, without compensation to the
Commonwealth, [pp. 52-53]
44• An Act to authorize Rail Road
Companies to appoint Police Agents, [p. 62]
88• An Act to amend the Charter of the City
of Richmond, [pp. 153, 165-168, 173-174]
154• An Act incorporating the Southern
Institution for the amelioration of the
condition of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Negroes of the Commonwealth, [p. 245]
165• An Act providing for the voluntary
enslavement of George, Shed, Sam and
Sukey, persons of color in the County of
Buckingham, [pp. 251-252]
166• An Act to provide for the voluntary
enslavement of Thomas Garland and Mary
Anderson, persons of color in the County of
Hanover, [pp. 252-253]
167• An Act providing for the voluntary
enslavement of Jane Payne, Mary Fletcher
and Glives. [pp. 253-254]
168• An Act for the voluntary enslavement
of Fanny Matthews, without compensation
to the State, [pp. 254-255]
169• An Act authorizing the Governor to
pardon slaves Jack and Ben, and restore
them to their former owner, [p. 255]
170• An Act to authorize the Governor of
the Commonwealth to pardon a negro slave
Tom, and restore said slave to his owner,
[pp. 255-256]
171• An Act authorizing the Governor to
pardon slave Bill, and restore him to his
former owner, [p. 256]
172• An Act to authorize the Governor to
pardon a slave John Ricks, and restore him
to his former owner, [pp. 256-257]
181• An Act authorizing the Common
Council of the City of Petersburg to declare
what in said city shall be an unlawful
assemblage of negroes, and to prescribe the
punishment therefor, [p. 261]