PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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notified previously of the existence and effect of this law — 1833,

ch. 224, sec. 1, 2, .........

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May extend the time of service of absconding servants — 1833, ch. 224,

sec. 3, ...........

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May order to be sold out of the state — 1833, ch. 224, sec. 4,

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In actions of replevin, where the property is a negro, not to be sold

until the action is determined, unless by order of the court — 1833,

ch. 274, sec. 1, . . . . . . .

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Deeds of manumission executed before the passage of the act of 1831,

ch. 323, and acknowleged before a justice of the peace, though not

recorded, and without a witness, to be valid, if recorded before the

first of October— 1833, ch. 284, .......

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United States army and navy officers when ordered on duty into this

state, may bring their slaves with them — 1834, ch. 75, .

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Any citizen of that part of the District of Columbia ceded by this

slate, owning land in this state, or any citizen of this state owning

land in the said District, may remove their slaves at will : provided

the slaves were not brought from any other of the United States —

1834, ch, 124, ..........

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The provisions of the 2d section of the act of 1817, ch. 112, extended

to all cases where persons being residents of this state, shall pur-

chase any slave, knowing such slave to be entitled to freedom after

a term of years, &.c. with the intention to transport such slave, &c.

and to all cases where such person shall remove and sell such

slave, and all the provisions of said act are declared to apply to

such persons, &c. — 1834, ch. 266, . .

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Guardians, executors and trustees, appointed in this state, or any ad-

joining slate or district, authorized to bring into this state and re-

move back, any slaves confided to them in trust, for hire or labour :

provided a list of them be recorded in the clerk's office of the

county to which they are removed, within thirty days, &c. — 1834,

ch. 284, ...........

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Citizens of this state holding lands in Virginia and this state, and citi-

zens of Virginia holding lands in this state, may remove their slaves

into this state, on filing under oath, a list of the slaves so removed,

in the county clerk's office, and on payment of the tax for the

benefit of the colonization society, as provided by the acts of 1831

and 1833, ch. 87—1835, ch. 329, sec. 1,

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Slaves so removed may be employed in either state, provided that the

privileges extended hy the 4th section of 1831, ch. 323, are not

interfered with— 1835, ch. 329, sec. 2, .

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Persons owning in whole or in part, or having hired any vessel re-

quired to be registered, not to navigate the same unless in charge

of a white man — 1836, ch. 150, sec. 1, .

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Otherwise vessel to be forfeited — 1836, ch. 150, sec. 2,

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Upon the judgment, vessel to be sold and one-half of the proceeds to

be paid to the informer, and the other half to the state treasury —

1836, ch. 150, sec. 4, . . . . . .

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