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"An Act to amend the act entitled 'An act concerning slaves.'"
"Whereas many inconveniences have arisen from the prohibiting the
exporting of slaves from this State. Therefore
"_Be it enacted_ ..., That where any slave shall hereafter be convicted
of a crime under the degree of a capital offence, in the supreme court,
or the court of oyer and terminer, and general gaol delivery, or a court
of general sessions of the peace within this State, it shall and may be
lawful to and for the master or mistress to cause such slave to be
transported out of this State," etc. _Laws of New York, 1789-96_ (ed.
1886), p. 151.
~1792, May. Connecticut: Act of 1788 Strengthened.~
"An Act in addition to an Act, entitled 'An Act to prevent the Slave
Trade.'"
This provided that persons directly or indirectly aiding or assisting in
slave-trading should be fined L100. All notes, bonds, mortgages, etc.,
of any kind, made or executed in payment for any slave imported contrary
to this act, are declared null and void. Persons removing from the State
might carry away their slaves. _Acts and Laws of Connecticut_ (ed.
1784), pp. 412-3.
~1792, Dec. 17. Virginia: Revision of Acts.~
"An Act to reduce into one, the several acts concerning slaves, free
negroes, and mulattoes."
Sec. 1. "_Be it enacted_ ..., That no persons shall henceforth be slaves
within this commonwealth, except such as were so on the seventeenth day
of October," 1785, "and the descendants of the females of them.
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