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VA-1861.12 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
43• An Act to authorize the use of the Jails
and Poorhouses of the State by the
Confederate States, for the safe keeping of
Free Negroes arrested by military authority,
[p. 63]
65• An Act to amend section 28 of chapter
52 of the Code of Virginia, [pp. 81-82]
85• An Act to amend and re-enact the act
entitled an act providing for the employ-
ment of Negro Convicts on the Public
Works, passed April 7th, 1858. [p. 103]
86• An Act to prevent the Escape of Slaves
in Tide Water Counties, [p. 104]
93• An Act to amend an act entitled an act
amending the Charter of the Town of
Danville, passed March 4th, 1854, and
incorporating into one the subsequent acts
amendatory thereof, [pp. 109, 114, 116]
97• An Act for the relief of John S. Currell,
James W. Gresham, administrator of
George W. Flowers, and William N. Kirk,
[pp. 118-119]
130• An Act authorizing and directing the
sale and delivery by the Governor of a
Convicted Slave, named Richard, to John
Washington of Caroline County, [p. 133]
131• An Act to compensate E.J. Buckwalter
and W.H. Pate, Jailors of Bedford County,
for keeping certain Negro Convicts confined
in the Jail of said County in the year 1861.
[p. 133]
9• Joint Resolution authorizing Free Negroes
to be carried out of the State, to be engaged
in the Manufacture of Salt Petre and other
Munitions of War. Adopted January 7,
1862. [p. 146]
Descriptors: Appropriations; Bedford County,
VA; Boats and ships; Capital punishment;
Caroline County, VA; Civil War; Danville, VA;
Free Negroes; Highways and roads; Hiring of
negroes; Imprisonment; Lancaster County, VA;
Munitions; Richmond, VA; Runaways; Sales of
slaves; Servants; Taxation; Town charters;
Buckwalter, E. J.; Currell, John S.; Flowers,
George W.; Gresham, James W.; Hiram (slave);
Kirk, William S.; Pate, William H.; Randall
(slave); Richard (slave); Spencer (slave); Wash-
ington, John
354 State Slavery Statutes
VA-1862.4
Contains:
12• An Act to amend and re-enact section 7,
chapter 103 of the code. [p. 11]
13• Preamble and Resolutions in respect to
the Nature and Conduct of the pending
War. Adopted May 9, 1862. [pp. 27-28]
• The Constitution of the Confederate States
of America. Adopted March 11, 1861. [pp.
3-15]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free
negroes; Civil War; Confederate States; Defense;
Fugitives; Importation of slaves; Runaways
VA-1862.9
Contains:
2• An Act to further provide for the Public
Defence, [pp. 6-8]
6• An Act to protect and indemnify Citizens
of Virginia, [pp. 12-15]
Descriptors: Confederate States; Courts; De-
fense; Emancipation; Hiring of slaves; Impress-
ment of slaves; Runaways
VA-1862.12
Contains:
64• An Act imposing Taxes for the Support
of the Government, [pp. 51-52, 60]
Descriptors: Free Negroes; Sales of slaves; Taxa-
tion
VA-1863.1
Contains:
1• An Act imposing Taxes for the Support of
Government, [pp. 3-4,16,18,21,25,29,34]
2• An Act appropriating the Public Revenue
for the fiscal year 1862-3. [pp. 34-35, 38]
6• An Act to amend and re-enact an act
further to provide for the Public Defence,
passed October 3, 1862. [pp. 42-46]
7• An Act to amend and re-enact the 12 th
section of an act passed March 13th, 1863,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
further to provide for the Public Defence,
passed October 3d, 1862, and to amend the
title of said act. [pp. 46-47]