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London, England, 1824-03-19 00:00:00

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SLAVE POPULA IION IN TfIE WEST INDIES
AND SOUTH AMERICA. -

DRAFT at AN ()nom sae COUNCIL Not IMPROVING
rile COSOITION or tin SLAVES or TRINIDAD.
13; And it is hereby further ordered, That henceforth it shall to t
be lawful to correct or punish by flogging or whipping any fentale
slave within the Island of Trinidad, for any offence committed, or
alleged to be committed, hy'aay such slave; and if any person or
persons within the said Island shall flog, v;hip, or correct any fe-
male slave, with any whip, cat, stick, or other such like instru-
ment, the person or persons so offending, and each and every per-
son who shall or may direct, authori.e, instigate, procure, or be
aiding, assisting, or abetting in any such correction or punishment,
SP aforesaid, of any such female slave, shall be, and he deemed, ad-
judged, and taken to be guilt y of a misdemeanour, and being thereat
convicted, shall suffer such punishment as is hereinafter provided.
And whereas it is necessary that effectual means should be adopted
for punishing such offences as may hereafter be committed by fe-
male slaves within the saidisland, be it therefore, and it is hereby
ordered, That any female slave who shall or may commit any of-
fence within the said bland, which by the laws in force there was
heretofore punished by flogging, shall for such her offence be subject
and liable to imprisonment, or to be confined in the stocks, or to
such other punishment or correction as may be necessary for the ef-
fectual suppression of such offences, and as may be specially sanc-
tioned in, and by any proclamation to be hereafter issued by the
authority and in the name of his Majesty, in the said Island. And
the Governor or Acting Governor of the said Island shall, and is
hereby anthorised to make and ordain such rules and regulations as
may be necessary for preventing any excess in such punishments, or
any abuse in the mode of inflicting the same. Provided that such
rules, and regulations be not in anywise repugnant to this present
Order. And provided also that the same be forthwith transmitted
by such Governor or Acting Governor as aforesaid for his Majesty's
approbation ; and that all such rules or regulations shall cease to be
binding or in force within the said Island, unless his Majesty's
lowance thereof shall be signified to such Governor or Acting Go-
vernor within two years after the date of such rules and regulations.
14. And it is hereby further ordered, That there shall be kept
upon every planiation and estate throughout the said Island, a bctok,
to be called the Plantation Record Book, rind that it shall be the
duty of the owner, proprietor, maaager, or other person having the
direction of, and the chief authority in, the said plantation, to enter
and record in the said book, at or immediately after the time of the
infliction of any punishment whatsoever on any female slave, or on
any male slave, who may be punished with eny number of stripes ex-
ceeding three, a statement of the nature and particulars of the offence
for, or in respect of which, such punishment may he irflicted ; and
of the time at which, and the place writ re such offence was com-
mitted; and of the time at which, and the place where such pu-
nishment was inflicted ; and of the nature, extent, and particulars
of the punishment, and in the case of male slaves, of the number of
stripes actually inflicted upon the offender, together with the names
of the persons by Whom, and by the author: ay of whom, the pu-
nishment was inflicted; and of the persons or person of free condi-
tion present, and attending at the infliction of every such punishment.
15. And it is hereby further ordered, that if any person, being
the owner, proprietor, or manager of a'iy pi intation or estate within
the said island, or having the management thereof, or the chief au-
thority therein, shall neglect or omit to mate in the said Plantation
Record Book, ally entry which according to the provisions of this
present order ought to be made therein, or shall not make such en.
try within two days next after tke infliction of each and every pu-
nishment, to which the same may refer, the person so offending shall
incur and become subject and liable to a penalty not exceeding one
hundred pounds, nor less than five pounds sterling, British money ;
to be recovered and applied in manlier hereinaftet mentioned. And
if any person or persons shall wilfully or fraudulently make, or cause
or procure to be made, any false entry or fraudulent erasure in any
such Plantation Record Book,or shall wilfully or fraudulently burn,
destroy,'cancel, or obliterate the same, or any parts or part thereof,
the person or persons so offending shall be, and be deemed and taken
to be guilty of a misdemeanour, and beirg thereof convicted, shall
suffer such punishment as is hereinafter provided.
16. And it is hereby further ordered, That every owner, proprie-
tor, or manager, or other person having the chief authority within
each and every plantation or estate within the said island, shall, on
the first Monday which shall happen next after the fifth _day of
April, the twenty-fourth day of Jute, the twenty-ninth day of Sep.
tember, and the twenty-fitth' day of December jn each year, re-
pair to the commandant for the time being of the quarter in which
such plantation or estate may be situate, and then and there pro-
duce before bini a precise and exact transcript of every entry which
during the quarter of a year next preceding, may have been made
in the Plantation Record Book;of his or her plantation or estate;
and shall also rake and subscribe an oath, to be annexed to the said
transcript, in the following words .(that is to say),
I, A. B. the owner, or manager (as the case may held the plans
tation called in the quarter of in the island of
Trinidad, do make oath and say, that the paper writing hereunto
annexed, containaa true and exact copy of every entry which sinse
the day of last bath b. en made in the Plantation
Record Book of the before-mentioned Plantation. And Ido fur/.
ther swear, that the said Plantation Record Book path been puma
tually and accurately kept, since the said day of
in the manner by law required, and that no fraudulent erasure of
false entry bath been made therein by me, or by any person by my
procurement, or with my knowledge or consent. So help me Goo.
And in case any such owner or manager as aforesaid,• shall not
since the time of making his last preceding return to the Comm
mandato of the quarter, have inflicted, or Cause to be inflicted, any
punishment upon any female slave, on his plantation or estate, or
any punishment on any male slave, exceeding three lathes, then,
and in every such case, in lieu of the oath aforesaid, such Owner
or manager shall, at the several times aforesaid, take and subscribe
before the Commandant of the quarter in Which such plantation
may be situate; on oath, in the following words (that is to say),
I, A. B. do swear, that since the day of now
last past, no punishment bath been inflicted by me, or by tray order,
or with my knowledge, upon any female slave belonging, or at-
tached, to the plantation called situate in the quarter
of whereof I am manager. And that no punishment
bath, since the said day of been inflicted upon
any male slave belonging, or attached, to the said plantation, el-
ceeding three lashes. And I further Swear, that no entry of any
such punishments bath, since the said 'd.y of
been made in the Plantation Record Book of the said folantation.-ao
So help me Goo.
17. Provided' always, and it is further ordered, that the Conte
mandant of each and every quartet, within the said island, shall,
fourteen days at the least before the time of making the returns,
transmit to the owner or manager of every plantation situate within
his quarter, a printed blank form of the betorementioned affidaviti,
together with a notice of the time and place as oolaik he will at-
tend for the purpose of receiving the, re turns, and administering the
oaths aforesaid, and the said Commandant shall, and is hereby re-
quired to attend, from day day, for three successive days and no
more, for the purposes aforesaid; and in case it shall be made to
appear to such Canninandant, by the certificate of any medical
Ilpractitioner, that any person or persons liable to make such return
fs or are, by reason of sickness, incapable of attending for that pur-
pose, at the time and place so to be appointed, es aforesaid,
and in every such case, the said Commandant shall, and he
' required to, attend the person or persons so incapicir
her, or their place or places of abode, for the...porpoise
the said returns, and taking such MI a...ea:tits a, al..res.j.4.
18. And it is hereby ordered, That if ary po son or ,
refuse or neglect to make any return, or to t..ke and sus
oaths required by this present order, the person or persons
ing, shall incur, and become liable no the payment oh a
ceeding one hundred pounds nor less th.,n tau pounds,
tish money to be recovered arid algal( nuittivt antei
19. And it is hereby further ord,tud, 711:,t the Colo.
each and every quarter in the a rid Island siren, an 1 he
required to transmit to the protector sal,
said Island, at his office in the town of Port al Sped!,
of the itoorns so to be made by him a...aforesaid, toettl
original affidavits thereunto anriesed, Cantles-as
after such quarterly returns shall be complete.. And se
such tomonandent shall himself be the inviter ist 11341141Vr
plantatiOir, he shall, togethite with the said Returns, deilvr
said protector and guardian of slaves, a transcript t.f dm
his awn plantation Nook, for the last preceding quarter t
together with an affidivit to be by him sworn before
Judge,, or sonic one or the Alcaltles in ordinary of the ,
in the muuter and form hereimhefore alascrt:ncl, wider

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