The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-05-26
CORPORATION LAWS.

day without a SpecIal permit lOHl Ahis VI u
or heir owners, or owners oyerseers or en-
]ployera, on business, and any negro taken up
in violation Of this law shall receive not less
than twenty lashes for every such offence,
3. IL enacted, That should any negro be
found within this Corporation, after sun
down or before sunrise during the week with
any articles for sale, without a special permit
from his, her, Of their owner, overseor or en-
pIoycr, all such articles shall be taken by the
Constable or Patrol, and when called for shall
BIS returned to the proper owner when that
fact shall satisfactorily appear; and such negro
shall receive not exceeding twenty loshes for
every such offence.
Be il enacted, That il shall not be lawful for
negroes on the Sabbath day to bring marketry
Of any description to town for sale, Or trade or
deal with any merchant, grocer, o. any other
person Or persons in said Town either with or
without permission from their owner, o%verseer
or employer, and every slave 50 offending shall
receive not exceeding twenty lashes.
Be iLfpMcr enacted, That any white Pcr@n
or free colored person, who shaii trade or deal
with any slave on the Sabbath, within tie Cor
poration, shall be liable to a fine Of ten dollars,
to be collected before any magistrate Of this
county, and this act to be in force from the first
Of August next.
BE il futher enacted, That it shalib be the du-
ty of the Town Constable TO see that the above
law is carried into effect, and that the Town
Constable or informant shall receive one hall
of all fines collected, and the other half to go
into the Town Treasury, (passod Jaly Gath.
l843)
Be At enacted, That it shall not be lawful fol
keepers Of Groceries to trade with negroes
without written permission Of The owner, over
seer or employer, under q penalty Of ten dol
liars for every offence, nor for negroes to resort
to Town without permission asJoboye, under
a penalty Of twenty lashes for every offence,
and that it DO The duty Of the President and
Constable to male diligent enquiry and exam
nation, for violation Of this Law, and to en-
force the provisions Of this enactment in every
case when such offence shall come under their
personal notice, or 10 their knowledge by any
other means whatever.
BE ii further enacted, That if any master OF
employer Of a slave shall permit such slave to
60 at large and trade asa free man, or trade OF
deal on his or her own account with other
slaves, the master Or employer shall forfeit and
pay the sum or twenty-five dollars, and if after
conviction said slave shall be found going at
large or trading, the master or employer shall
again be liable Tor the like sum-, and as often
convicted as said slave shall be found going at
large, or trading as aforesaid.
Be ii FURTHER enacted, That if any person
shall permit his or her slave or slaves, or any
slaves hired by him or her, to go at large and
hire himself or herself out, II shall be lawful
for any person, and it shall, moreover, be the
duty Of the Police Officer Of the town, to apprc-
bend and carry such slave before the President
Of the Board Of Selectmen. or any other Jus.
tice of the Peace q the county, Corporation
and if it shall appear that such slave hath beer
permitted to go at large and hire himself OIL
herself out, such Justice shall forthwith impose
on the owner Of such slave, or The person per
hitting him or her to 60 at large or hire him
self or horseIt out, a fine Of twenty-five dolIart
for each aud every offence against this enact
mont.
BE ii further enacted, That when a fine il
imposed on either Of the foregoing ordinances
the slave shall be held in custody and be liabl,
therefor, and that the Town Constable or an,
other person who shall give such information
to the Justice or President of the Board as t.
convict any slave, shall be entitled to oneahaI
the fine and the other half to 60 into the Treas
ury.
Bet further enacted, That it shall not b
lawful for negroes to assemble in larger mum
bers than three at any place within the Coz
poration on the Sabbath, except it be going Q
f returning from church, or whilst in attendane
on divine service, and any negroes so foun
offending shall receive not exceeding twent
, lashes.
c afnrther enacted, That any negro caugl
+ away from his OF her masters or employer
n premises after eight O'Clock at night, from III
LIST of April until the first of October, and n
nine O'CLOCK from that time till the lst Of Apri
without a permit, shall receive twenty lash,
for every such offence from the Patrol, or Il
Town Constable.
PATROL LAW.
BE y enacted, That there shall be made O.
a list Of all persons liable to do patrol dut
IS which list shall be sub-diyided into compani
r Of five men each, which companies shall ,
n patrol duty in regular rotation commencir
re with the 6rst. 1t shall be tho duty of the ca
ag tains or IN their absence Of the next person
thelist Of their company, with their compani
a, topatrol the town for one week, as oftenas I'M
e. term q service may arrive, and at least twi
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