618 Assembly Proceedings, May 15-June 8, 1751.

Liber B. L. C.

An Act continuing an Act entituled, An Additional and Explanatory
Act to the Act entituled, An Act empowering the Commissioners

of the County Courts, to levy and raise Tobacco, to defray the

necessary Charges of their Counties and Parishes.

No. 13

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled, An

[An
Additional
and Ex-
planatory
Act
continued.]

Additional and Explanatory Act to the Act entituled, An Act em-
powering the Commissioners of the County Courts, to levy and raise
Tobacco, to defray the necessary Charges of their Counties and
Parishes, made at a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the City
of Annapolis, the tenth Day of May, One thousand seven hundred
forty and eight, be, and is hereby continued, and shall remain and
be in full Force, for and during the Term of three Years next ensu-
ing, and to the End of the next Session of Assembly, which shall
happen after the End of the said three Years.

7 June 1751
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl. lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Prop^ry
of this Province I will
this be a Law
Sam: Ogle

The Great Seal in
Wax Appendant

7 June 1751
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl. Up H.

No. 14
p. 536

An Act for the more effectual Punishment of Negroes and other
Slaves, and for taking away the Benefit of Clergy from certain
Offenders: And A Supplementary Act to an Act entituled, An
Act to prevent the tumultuous Meeting and other Irregularities of
Negroes and other Slaves, and directing the Manner of trying
Slaves.

[Preamble.]

Whereas the Laws in Force for the Punishment of Slaves are
found insufficient to prevent their committing very great Crimes and
Disorders, and that a further Provision is necessary to keep them
in proper Bounds and due Order; and for a more speedy Method to
bring them to Justice than is prescribed by the Laws heretofore made.

[Crime
punishable
with Death.]

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-
ernor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Au-
thority of the same, That if any Slave or Slaves shall at any Time
consult, advise, conspire, or attempt to raise any Insurrection within
this Province, or to murder or poison any Person or Persons what-
soever, or to commit a Rape upon any white Woman, or to burn any
House or Houses, and be thereof convict by Confession or Verdict,
or who shall of Malice stand mute, or peremptorily challenge above
the Number of twenty Jurors, shall suffer Death as in Cases of
Felony, without Benefit of Clergy.