The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-28

LxvI. The regulations hitherto in force relative
70 Chinese and Yucatan colonists are hereby abre-
gated.
General Regulation.
IDe Governor Captain General OF the island shsm
take the proper in order that every year. By
une month OF January lists Of the colonsts may 30
names sex ages, country, whether they are married
or single their trades the period Of their contract
and the name, profession and domcile Of their res
pective masters.
The So authority shall send to the Presidency
OF the Council Of Ministers an annual abstract or
the said registers stating the number OF colousts Of
eae4 ro% Is S @ y S ages to Is
by condition, es unmarried, married or widowers:
by occupation. whether agricultural industrial or
domestic by the districts in which they reside; aud
by the time OF duration Of their contracts according
as they may be under five years. from five to ten
year., from ten to fifteen years. and from fifteen
years upwards.
Given at the Palace, March %, 1854.
Signed by the Royal Hand.
The President of the Council of Ministers.
(Signed) LUIS JosE SAKrORIus,
Taking into consideration the reasons stated to
me by my President of the Council Of Ministers, and
in conformity with the opinion of the same Council
have determined to approve the following reRuIa.
ti0ns, which to be observed in the island OF Gu
ba for preparing lists and civil register Of slaves:
CHAPTER /.
Respecting Lists and First Inscription of Saues in
the Civil Register.
ART. l. On such days as the Captain General may
fix, the municipal officers Of the towns (pedaneosI
accompanied by such functionaries or private ind
Governors may appoint, will proceed to the prepa-
ration of the lists of slaves throughout the island.
II. These lists shall state, with due clearness and
exacttude, the names of the slaves, their SEX the
known, and if not known, what their age NAV an
pear to be; also the names Of their parents II
known, their social position, their occupation their
lersonal description, and lastly, the name, profess
sion, and domcile Of the owner.
III. The municipal officers and the delegates as-
companying them will sign all the lists Of their dis
hict, and the owners of slaves will sign their own
lists. both being responsible to the Governor or to
for any mistake or any inexactitude showing Q
fraudulent intention.
Nv. Any owner of slaves who shall cause to be en-
tered in the lists greater number Of slaves than he
really possesses shall pay fine of from $500 to $500
for every additional slave SO entered.
V. The same penalty shall be inflicted on the
owner who shall enter any of his slaves with false
description, showing fraudulent intention.
vi. The "pedaneo" and delegates who may be
convicted OF connvance in any OF the frauds alluded
to in the two preceding Articles shall be tried and
punished as fOrgers of public documents.
VII. After the expiration of the term fixed for
the formation of the lists. the "pedaneos" will send
them in original to the Governor or LieutensntGo-
vernon Of the respective Districts keeping certified
VIII. In every chief town of district civil re-
gister of slaves shall be established, which shall
comprise all those slaves who may have their habi-
tual residence within the same district, and which
will be entrusted to public functionary appointed
by the government.
TX. The Governor, or Lieutenant Governor, on
receiving the lists from the "pedAneos," win
the register for the inscription in the latter of al
the slaves comprised in the lists without emitting
any OF the marks or circumstances noted therein.
Z. After the expiration Of the time fixed for tho
formation OF the lists and when the civil registers
in the districts shall be opened the Captain
will fix further short period, not to be extended.
during which the owners of slaves who for any
reason whatever may have omitted to enter any q
neo," together with the omitted slaves in question,
to have them entered.
II; After the expiration Of this second term,
Lieutenant Governor the lists which they may have
drawn up during this second period, in the manner
prescribed in Articles H. ILL., vi, and VII, and then
the registers for all first inscriptions shall be rrevo
cably closed, excepting the inscription of newly
born children, or that which may be ordered to be
made by the proper authorities after due examine
ton of the circumstances of the case.
General viii tx further period, within which the
owners Of slaves shall receive, through the
"pedaneos," two certified copies Of the inscription
Of each slave, which viii be called "cedulas de
egistro" (register tckets).
XIII. The register tickets shall state briefly the
description and circumstances Of each slave accor
ing to the tenor Of the inscription and they viii be-
issued by the keeper Of the register, and counter
signed by the respective Governors or Lieutenant
Governors
XIV. The Governors or LieutenantG Governors
will cause new register tickets to be issued when
ever they may be requested to dos by the owners OF
slaves, in consequence of the original ones having
been lost and the keepers Of registers will also issue
such tickets by their own authority whenever they
may make any alteration In the original inscription.
fho int oir
any slaves proceeding from other districts and
registered In the same according to the rules to DO
laid down in the next chapter.
The issuing of the ticket shall always be entered
in the register book, and if it should be issued in
duplicate the reason for so doing viii be stated.
XIV. The registers being once closed, all slaves
who may not have been inscribed therein by their
owners shall be considered as manumitted anc Free
by virtue of the law, with the exception Of those
cases in which the proper authorities may direct the
slaves to be registered according to the regulations
hereinafter laid down.
XVI. After the expiration Of the term in which
the owners Of slaves are to receive from the "pe-
dnaeos the register tickets, the slaves will not be
allowed to pass freely in the country the public
roads without carrying with them one Of the copies
Any slave who may be found without this docu.
ment will be treated deserter; and after his n
rest by the authorities notice will be sent to the
owner thar he may present the register ticket
owner has received the aforesaid notice the regsteS
ticket shall not be presented the slave sall Be de-
clared free, and the proper authority will deliver to
him his letter Of freedom.
XVII. After the register has been closed, only the
following slaves will be inscribed in it for the first
time:-
l: Slaves born subsequently to the closing Of the
register.
2. Those who may be declared slaves by sentence
of the courts of justice and after due proof Of their
legitimate origin.
3. Those whom the Captain General or his dele
gates the Governors, or acknowledgements, may
direct to be entered as legtimately imported into
the island not having been in the possession OF
their owners during the period fixed for their in
scription.
XVIII. The newly born slaves shall be entered by
their owners within month, to be re ,koned from
the day of their birth, in the form prescribed in
Article ii.
XIX. The men of color whose state of freedom or
Of slavery may be In question before the courts Of
Justice, shall be entered with note of this circum-