The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-01-19
HE VIRGINIA LEGrsLATURE.


| THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE. !. =
FROM The following important act, (now law OF
the 'snd,) it appears that slaves purchased herear
'er ara not admissible into this State.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, bre-u,, and heid
/ ar fhe CGhtoi Ia ne CRY q/ Richuiend, on,
| honday the 1914 Day Ct .Noremter, III,
| the year OF or iord 1912, and Of Oh. Com
nonSueo!:h the thirtg -se1,,zitk.
/ AN ACT CONCERNING. SLAVES,
Passed January l5th, 1875.
BE it endrtcd 6y the GensraL Aascw5lv,
hat any person, a citizen OF this common
wealth, and residing therein, now being The,
actual owner OF any Slave or slaves, out of
this commonwealth, and born within the u.
States, or the territories thereof and any
person who may hereafter remove to this
commonwealth, with n bore .fde '.,,tention
Iot becoming citizen and ihhabi,ant
thereof, and shall be, at the tine of
his removal, the actual cD;ner Of any such
slave o. slaves, and Shall moreover, either
have been the actual owner thereof for
TWO years INN edistcly preceding such
removal. or have acquired iii. thereto bv
marriage. descen. or devise, shall be, aud
he Is hereby authorised to bring into this
com monwealth, and to hold therein, any
such slave or slaves-Provided, that such
owner shall, within sixty DAYS after srci,
slave or slaves shall have been BROUGHT
INTO this commonwealth, exhibit to some
justice of the peace for the country or COR
poratlon in which he may then reside, or
may nave removed TO, statement in
writing containing the name, age, sex and
description OF each and every slave So bro't
IN and moreover shall make oath. or So
Tenn affirmation, before such Justice, that
the SAID staten ent contains a true account
Oh the slave so brought in and that the
sald slave or slaves have not been brought
IN this com monwealth for the purpose of
sale, or with intent to evade the laws Of
TINS com MOI wealth to prevent the further
mportaticns of slaves or in any manner
contrary 10 tie provisions of this act and
within sixty days thereafter, shall return
such statement, together with a certificate
o. the sad oath or affirmation, to the court
OF tn county or corporation, then to be re-
corded.
&c ftJrrther enacted, That any person:
oeing citizen OF this commonw ealth, and
residing therein, who may have heretofore.
Drought any slave or slaves into the same.
contrary to the provisions of the act n.ssrJ
the twenty fifth day of January 1907, emit
tea, an act to amend the several laws
concerning slaves" shall be permitted to
retain such slave or slaves within this COM
monwealth, and shall be DISCHARGED from
all hnes, penalties and forfeitures ipcurred
thereby Provided, That he shall conform,
TO the provisions OF the foregoing section on
or before the first day ofJune nsxt.
re nfurfher enacted, That It shall not
be lawful for any person, who shall have
brought any slave into this cctnronw wealth..
or retained any one therein, under the au-
thority of the first or second section of this
act, to make any voluntary sale, or contract
for the sale, OF such slave, within the space
OF TWO years from the time that such slave
shall have been SO brought. And if anv
person shall make such sale or contract
contrary 10 the true intent and meaning *
th'S act the slave so sold, or contracted to
be sold, shall lie forfeited, and be subject TO
the same proceedings and appropriated.
Us II TINS act had never been passed.
~ HfaTfher enacted That this act emit.
tled' an act 10 amend the several lnws
corning slaves, passed on The 17th Of
Jan. 1911, shall be and the same is hereby
made perpetual.
All acts and parts of ACES, coming within
the pnrview OF this act, shall be, and the
same is hereby repealed.
En-. MS act shall commence and be in force
from and alter the passing thereof
"a true copv,)
WIN. MUNFORD. C.H.D.