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choice of the persons to whom the children shall be bound, and

that no child shall be bound under this act whose parents are wil-

ling to support such child, and teach habits of industry — 1839, ch.

306, ............

2341

Free negroes may visit the island of Trinidad or Guiana, and return

and reside in the state, as if they had not absented themselves, pro-

vided they do not remain out of the state more than eighteen

months, and provided they first satisfy the orphans court, that the

visit is one of inspection and recognoizance — 1839, ch. 29, .

2320

No free negro or mulatto shall come into this state with intent to re-

side or not, under the penalty of twenty dollars for the first offence,

and for the second offence, under the penalty of five hundred dol-

lars, one-half of the said sum of five hundred for the use of the

informer, and the other moiety for the use of the colonization so-

ciety, to be recovered before the county court of the county, and

during the recess thereof, before the orphans court of the county

where arrested ; and upon conviction, and refusal to pay the fine,

to be sold to serve in the capacity of slave — the sheriff to be al-

lowed ten per cent, commission, and his official bond, liable for the

money, received. The sheriffs and constables to arrest all who

violate the provisions of the law. The person arresting any who

shall come into this state, contrary hereto, to be entitled to the first

fine of twenty dollars, and like proceedings to be had to enforce

the payment thereof— 1839, ch. 320, ......

2343

This law not to extend to servants attending visiters in this state —

1839, ch. 320, ..........

2343

The justices of the magistrates' court, where there is no such court the

orphans court may inquire if there be any free negroes who have

not the necessary means of support, and are not of good and indus-

trious habits, and they may direct the sheriff to sell the same, at

public sale, to the highest bidder, to^erve in the capacity of a slave,

for the year in which said sale shall he made, giving ten days no

tice, and if within ten days after the said term shall expire, the said

negro shall not leave the state or hire himself to some respectable

person for the following year, he is to be again sold — 1839, ch. 320,

2344

The purchase money to be paid to the negro after deducting the com-

mission and expenses therein provided — 1839, ch. 320,

2345

Infant children of such negroes to be bound out as is therein provided

—1839, ch. 320, .........

2345

GAMING.

No device (except billiard tables) for gaming shall be kept in any

house, on pain of forfeiting such table, and two hundred dollars for

every offence. — Justices to suppress gaming tables, on resistance,

they may commit the offender to the officer who may summons the

posse comitatus — 1803, ch. 75, .......

489

Debtors having lost more than one hundred dollars at any one time

within three years, precluded from the benefit of the insolvent law

— 1805, ch. 110, sec. 9, p. 533 ; 1807, ch. 150, sec. 2, .

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