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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1796
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102            VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.

    The bill to correct a misnomer in an act, entitled, An act concerning the bank stock, was read
the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    The bill to authorise and empower the vestry of William and Mary parish, in Charles county,
to sell and dispose of the negroes belonging to said parish, and for other purposes, was read the second
time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    The bill to repeal the nineteenth section of the constitution, and to provide a new mode of electing
senators in case of refusal, death, resignation, disqualification, or removal out of this state, of
any senator, or on his becoming governor or member of the council, was read the second time,
and the question put, That the said bill do pass?  The yeas and nays being required, appeared as
follow:

A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Hopewell,
Neale,
Spencer,
Barroll,
Hall,
Sprigg,		 Emerson,
Bourne,
Digges,
Sherwood,
Johnson,
Hyland,		 Campbell,
Savin,
Bowie,
Duckett,
Baker,
Nicholson,		 Brown,
Butcher,
C. Frazier,
Robins,
Brother,
Shriver,		 Jarrett,
Prall,
McComas,
Driver,
McKim,		 Douglass,
Reintzel,
Swearingen,
Oneale,
J. C. Beatty.
 
 
34.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Buchanan,
Ridout,
J. C. Thomas,
Brome,		 Parnham,
Merryman,
Worthington,
Jones,		 Miller,
Wallace,
Calvert,
Quynn,		 Key,
Wilson,
Quynn, jun.
Bennett,		 Young,
Cellar,
Bowles,
McClain,		 Clarke,
Beall,
Tomlinson.		  

23.
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
Sent to the senate by the clerk.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the resolution relative to the communications from the commonwealth
of Virginia, endorsed; " By the senate, December 27, 1796:  Read the first time and ordered
" to lie on the table.
                                                " By order,                                            A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 27, 1796:  Read the second time by especial order and dissented from.
                                                " By order,                                            A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
The bill relating to negroes, and to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned, endorsed; " By 
" the senate, December 24, 1796:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                " By order,                                            A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 27, 1796:  Read the second time and will pass with the proposed amendments.
                                                " By order,                                            A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
    Amendments proposed.  At the end of the 5th clause add " And be it enacted, That any negro
or mulatto heretofore or hereafter held in bondage, and claimed as a slave, but who has been or
hereafter may be adjudged free, as descending from a free ancestor, not the descendants of any negro
or mulatto so manumitted or adjudged free, shall be received as competent evidence to manumit any
slave petitioning for freedom."  In the 15th line of the 8th page strike out the word "fifty" and
insert the words "forty-five."  In the last line of the same page strike out from the word "given"
to the end of the clause and insert the words " shall commence."  Strike out from the beginning of
the 11th page to the word "be" in the 2d line thereof, and insert the word "and."  Strike out
from the word "slaves" in the 3d line of the same page to the word "shall" in the 6th line.  In the 3d
line of the 12th page strike out from the word "slaves" to the word "have" in the 5th line of the
same page.  In the 13th line of the same page strike out from the word "administrators" to the
word "shall" in the 15th line.  8th page, strike out from the beginning of the 16th clause to the
end of the 17th.  In the 8th line of the 16th page, after the word "jury" insert the words " or
upon confession or otherwise."  In the same line, after the word "mulatto" insert " a sum not exceeding
three hundred dollars."   In the 3d line of the 17th page, after the word "loan" insert " or
otherwise."  At the end of the 8th line of the same page add " and such offender or offenders also
shall be liable, upon indictment and conviction upon verdict, confession or otherwise, in this state,
in any county court where such offence shall happen, be fined a sum not exceeding two hundred
dollars, at the discretion of the court, one half to the use of the master or owner of such slave, the
other half to the county school, in case there be any, if no such school, to the use of the county."
13th page, strike out from the beginning of the 7th line to the end of the clause.  In the 10th line
of the 18th page, after the word "found" strike out to the end of the page, and insert " living idle,
without any visible means of subsistence."  In the 4th line of the 20th page strike out the word "sixty" and
insert the word "twenty."  At the end of the 8th line of same page add " and the money therefrom
arising, after payment of the charges arising from such commitment and confinement, to pay over
unto the justices of the levy courts of the respective counties, for the use of said counties."  In the
1st line of the 22d page strike out the word "law" and insert the word "act."  In the 8th line of
the 24th page strike out from the word "counties" to the end of the clause.  At the end of page
24, add " And be it enacted, That where any person or persons possessed of any slave or slaves
within this state, who are or shall be of healthy constitutions, and sound in mind and body, capable
by labour to procure to him or them sufficient food and raiment, with other requisite necessaries of
life, and not exceeding forty-five years of age, and such person or persons possessing such slave or
slaves as aforesaid, and being willing and desirous to set free or manumit such slave or slaves, may,
by writing under his, her or their hand and seal, evidenced by two good and sufficient witnesses at

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