The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-18 00:00:00

to purchase the freedom of himself, oz any such other person as
aforesaid ; and if the owner or proprietor of any such slave shall
ne unwilling to effect his or her manumission, or shall, by rea-
son of any mortgage, settlement, lease, or other charge upon
or interest in such slave being vested in any other person or
persons, be unable to execute a valid and effectual manumis-
sion of any such slave, or if the owner or proprietor, or any
other person having an interest in any such slave, shall be a
minor, or a married woman, or idiot, or lunatic, or if the real
and true owner of any such slave shall be absent from the said
island, or shall not be known, or if any suit or action shell be
depending in any court of justice in the said Island, wherein
the title to the said slave, or the right to his services shall or
may be in controversy, or if die owner of any such slave shall
demand as the price of his or her freedom a greater sum of
money than may be the fair and just value'thereof, then and in
each and every of the cases aforesaid, the Chief Judge of the
said island, on application to him for that purpose made by the
protector and guardian of slaves, shall issue a summons under
his hand and seal, requiring the owner or manager of such slave,
or the persons or pevson under whose direction such slave may
be, to appear before him, by themselves or their agents, at some
convenient time and place to be for that purpose appointed, and
notice shall also be published by the said protector and guardian
of slaves, in the Public Gazette of the said island, on three see
veral days, of the time and place appointed for the purpose
aforesaid, and in such notice all persons having or claiming to
have any title or interest in or to the slave proposed to be manu-
mitted, either in their own right, or as theguardians, attorneys,
trustees, or executors of any other person, shall be required to
attend, and prefer such claims.
30. And it is hereby farther ordered, That at the time appoint-
ed for any such meeting as aforesaid, the Chief Judge of the said
island, in the presence of the protector and guardian of slaves,
and also in the presence of the owner or manager of the slaves
or slave, proposed to be manumitted, or (upon proof being made
to him, upon oath, of the due service and publication of such
notice as aforesaid then, if necessary), in the absence of such
owner or manager, shall proceed to hear in a summary way,
what may be alleged by the said protector and guardian of
slaves, and by the owner or manager, or other persons claim-
ing any interest in the slave proposed to be manumitted ; and
in case the parties or any of them shall refuse to effect any such
manumission, or if it shall appear to the said Chief Jddge that
a valid and effectual manumission of any such slave cannot le-
gally be effected by private contract, or it, it shall he made to
appear to the said Chief Judge that the owner Or proprietor of
any such slave, or that any person having any charge upon or
interest in him or her, is a minor or a married woman, or idiot,
or lunatic, or that the real and true owner of any such slave,
or that any person having any charge upon or interest in him
orlher, is absent from the said island, or is unknown, or cannot
be found, or that any suit or action is depending in any court
of justice, in the said island, wherein the tide to the said slave,
or the right to his services, is in controversy, or if it shall appear
to the said Chief Judge, that any difference of opinion exists
between the protector and guardian of slaves of die said island,
and the owner and proprietor of any such slave, respecting his
or her price or value, then, and in every such case, the said
Chief Judge shall require the protector of slaves, and the owner,
manager, or person having the direction of any such slave, each
to nominate an appraiser of his or her value ; and the said
Chief Judge shall himself nominate an umpire between such
appraisers. And the said appraisers, being first duly sworn•
before the said Judge, .to make a fair and impartial appraise.,
meat, shall, within 7 days next after such their appointment,
make a joint valuation of the slave proposed to be manumitted ;
and shall certify such their valuation to the Chief Judge under
their hands and seals ; and in case such joint certificate shall
not be delivered to the said Chief Judge within the said term
of 7 daysohen she said umpire, being duly sworn in manner
aforesaid, shall, within the next 7 days, certify his valuation,
under his hand and seal, to the said Chief Judge, and the va-
luation to be made in manner aforesaid, either by the said
joint appraisers, or in their default, by the said umpire, shall
be binding and conclusive, and shall be entered and inrolled
in the office or registry innhe said island.
31. And it is hereby further ordered, That upon payment
to the Treasurer of the said island of the appraised value of
any such slave as aforesaid, after deducting therefrom the ex-
pence of the appraisernent to be allowed by the said Chief
Judge, the said' Treasurer shall grant to the protector
slaves a receipt for the money to be received by him. And
such receipt shall be duly enrolled in the officaenodf_hregdiesetniryeidn,
ha
purposes,be
the said island, together. with a declaration under the band
and seal of the said Chief Judge, that the proceedings re-
quired by law for the manumission of the slave by or on be-
:l..le of whom such money was paid, had been
andauly
solita./tlheancdhimefa
fore him, and thereupon such slave shall be,
taken, and reputed to be free to all intents
whatsoever.
32. And it is further ordered, That the money to arise from
the manumission of any slave by virtue of the proceedings
outthe
application
invested
of
beunderre the-in e n tauthoritybefore-mentioned,
edJyub4e,laoidn
any person or persons interested therein in the purchase of
1
any other slave or
slaves; or if no such application shall be
made, then such money
shall remain in the hands of the pub-
lic Treasurer of the said island, at interest at and after the
rate of 5/. per centum per • er annum, such interests to be borne
by, and defrayed out of the revenues of the said Colony, and
the slave or slaves 8° to he purchased with the said money
as aforesaid : or, in case of no such purchase being made, then
the said money in the hands of the said public treasurer, and
the interest from dine to time accruing due thereupon, shall be
the property of the Persons who were the proprietors of such
manumitted slave or slaves"
, and shall be held upon, under and
subject to all such and the 'same uses, trusts, limitations, con-
ditions, mortgagee, &time, and demands of what nature or
kind soever as such slave or slaves was or were held upon,
under or subject unto, at such the time of his, her, or their
manumission ; and the said treasurer shall hold the said money,
and the interest accruing thereupon, subject to such order as
the Chief Judge of the said colony may, upon a summary ap-
plication of any person interested therein, see fit to make, and
such principal money and interest shall by the said treasurer
be paid, applied, and disposed of in pursuance of and obedience
to any such order.
33. And it is hereby further ordered, That before the menu.
mission of any slave by virtue ,vi-ete oie any private contract for that
purpose between such slave and his owner, notice of such in-
tended manumission shall, by y the owner of such slave, be given
in writing to the protector and guardian of slaves, who, on be-
half of the said slave, shall be bound to ascertain that such
owner has good right and title in the law, and is cOmpetent to
effect such manumission ; and the
said protector and guardian
of slaves shall also, without fee or reward, prepare the proper
deed of manumission, and the same shall in all cases be exe-
cuted in the presence of the said protector and guardian of
slaves, or of some proper witners, to be by hint appointed for
that purpose, and being so executed, shall by such protector
and guardian of slaves be enrolled in the office of registry in
the said island, within one calendar month, next after the date
and execution thereof: And i
lease any such deed shall not be
left for enrolment at the said office of registry within the said
period of one calendar month, the said protector of slaves shall
incur and be liable to the payment of a fine not exceeding
pounds, nor less than pounds sterling English money.
34. And it is hereby ordered, That in case any such deed
or manumission as aforesaid shall be executed voluntarily
and without any valuable consideration passing to the owner
or other person affecting such manumission, the slave or slaves
so to be manumitted shall before the actual execution of any such
deed, appeal before the said protector and guardian of slaves,
or before the commandant of the quarter in which such slave
may happen to be resident ; and if it shall appear to the said
protector anti guardian of slaves, or to such commandant, as
the case may be, that the slave about to be so gratuitously
manumitted, is under the age of six years, or above the age
of fifty years, or is labouring under any habitual disease or in-
firmity of mind or body, the owner or other person about to effect
such manumission, shall, at the time of the execution of the
deed of manumission, execute and deliver under his hand and
seal a bond to his Majesty in the penal sum of 200 pounds,
with a condition thereunder written, for the defeezance thereof,
if the said slave shall be properly fed, clothed, and maintained
until the age of fourteen years in the case of infants, or during
the term of his or her natural life, in the case of adults of the age
of fifty years, or labouring under any such sickness, disease, or
infirmity as aforesaid ; and no such manumissions shall be va-
lid and effectual in the law, or shall be received for enrolment
at the office of registry, until such bond as aforesaid be duly
executed and registered anti deposited at the said office.
35. Anti it is hereby furthered, That every clergyman of
the Established Church of England, and every Minister of the
Kirk of Scotland, and every Priest or Minister professing the
Roman Catholic religion in the said island, and every other
person, being a public teacher of religion within the said
island, shall, and is • hereby authorized to transmit or de-
liver under his hand to the commandant, of the number to
which he may be resident, to certificates setting forth the
names or name and places or place of abode of any slave or
slaves, who, in the judgment and belief of the party so certify.
ing, may he sufficiently instructed in the principles of religion
to understand the nature anti obligation of an oath. And the.
commandants of the several quarters in the said island shall,
And are hereby required to, transmit such certificates as afore-
said to the protector and guardian of slaves, who shall, and is
hereby required to register the same in a book to be kept by
him for that purpose, therein stating the date of every such
certificate, and the name and place of abode of the person by
whom the same may he granted, and of every slave Men-
tioned 'and included therein; provided,. nevertheless, that no
priest, minister, or public teacher of religion, not being a
clergyman of the Church of England, or a minister ce' the
Kirk of Scotland, shall be competent to grant any such"certifi-
cate as aforesaid, unless his Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State, having the departawat of the colonies, or the Governor