This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... without a legal excuse, is liable to pay a fine of $2 for each default, and ten per cent, on his general tax of the preceding year. 3d and 4th sec. Sec. 41. It is the duty of the commanding officer of each beat iYstrt Is company, to make out a roll of the inhabitants of.each patrol division, liable to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... without a legal excuse, is liable to pay a fine of $2 for each default, and ten per cent, on his general tax of the preceding year. 3d and 4th sec. Sec. 41. It is the duty of the commanding officer of each beat iYstrt Is company, to make out a roll of the inhabitants of.each patrol division, liable to do patrol duty, and from such roll, at each regular muster of his company, to prick off, at /lis discretion, any number of persons to do patrol duty until the next muster, and appoint some prudent and discreet person to command the said patrol. If the officer commanding the beat company, fails to prick off, at each muster, the patrol of each division, or the commandant of the patrol fails in his duty, each of them is liable to a fine not exceeding $30. Sec. 42. It is the duty of the commandant of the patrol to wall 5, h ='' 13 hec. 1 1 1 1 Acioi'39. them out at least once a fortnight, and to take up, and correct with 11 Siat. os--60. stripes, not exceeding 20, with a switch or cowskiu, all slaves found outside of their owner's or employer's plantation, without a ticket or letter to shew the reasonableness of his absence, or some white person in company to give an account of the business of such slave; and also, if the slave have a ticket, and has in his possession, a gun, pistol or other offensive weapon, unless such slave be on lawful business, or in company with some white person not less than ten years of age. Fire arms. and other offensive weapons. found by the patrol act ot'43, in the possession of a slave, in violation of the above provisions, are 11 s'at. 5i' liable to seizure by them, and condemnation and forfeiture to the use of the regiment to which the patrol may belong. To obtain such forfeiture, the leader of the patrol...
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