j82-i. 



inandant, sliall, without fee or reward, 

 issue a license under liis hand and seal. 



23. That it shall not be lawful, in the 

 execution of any judgment, sentence, de- 

 cree, or order, of any tribunal, or of any 

 court of juslioe within the said island, to 

 seize or sell in satisfaction thereof, any 

 slave, having a husband or wife, or a child 

 under the age of sixteen years, or a re- 

 puted] husband or wife, or child under the 

 age aforesaid, who may be the property 

 ot the same persons or person, unless such 

 husband, and wife, and child, or reputed 

 luisband, wife, or child, shall be sold to- 

 gether, and in one and the same lot, and 

 to the same person or persons : and if, in 

 the execution of any such judgment, sen- 

 tence, decree, or order, any slave or slaves 

 siiall be sold separate or apart from any 

 such husband, or wife, or child, or re- 

 puted husband, or wife, or child, as afore- 

 said, then and in every such case, such sale 

 and execution shall be, and the same is 

 hereby declared to be, absolutely null in 

 the law, to all intents and purposes what- 

 soever. 



24. That no person in the island of 

 Trinidad, being in a state of slavery, shall 

 be, or be deemed, or taken to be, by 

 reason or on account of such his condition, 

 incompetent to purchase, acquire, possess, 

 hold or enjoy, alienate or dispose of, pro- 

 perty ; but every such slave shall and is 



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payable within the said island, upon, for 

 or on account, or in respect of, the niauu- 

 iuission of any slave, or the enrolment or 

 registation of any deed of manumission. 



29. That, in case any slave within 

 the said island :shall be desirous to pur- 

 chase the freedom of himself or of his or 

 lier wife, or husband, or child, or brother, 

 or sister, or reputed wife, or liusband, or 

 child, or brother or sister, it shall and may 

 be lawful to and for any such slave so to 

 purchase the freedom of himself, or any 

 such other person as aforesaid ; and, if the 

 owner or proprietor of any such slave 

 shall be unwilling to eft'ect his or her ma- 

 numission, or shall, by reason of any mort- 

 gage, settlement, lease, or other charge 

 upon or interest in such slave being vested 

 in any other person or persons, be unable 

 to execute a valid and efFectual manuinis- 

 sioii of any such slave, then the chief 

 justice of the said island, on application to 

 hiiu for that purpose made by the protector 

 and guardian of slaves, shall issue a suiu- 

 nions under his hand and seal, requiring 

 the owner or manager of such slave, or 

 the persons or person under whose di- 

 rection such slave may be, to appear be- 

 fore him. 



30. That, at the time appointed for any 

 such meeting as aforesaid, the chief judge 

 of the said island, in the presence of the 

 projector and guardian of slaves, and also 



hereby declared to be competent to pur- in the presence of the owner or manager 

 chase, acquire, possess, hold, enjoy, alie- 

 nate, and dispose of, lands situate in the 

 said island, or money, cattle, implements 

 or utensils of husbandry or household fur- 

 niture, or other etfectsof such or the lilie 

 nature, ot what value or amount soever, 

 and to bring, maintain, prosecute, and 

 defend, any suit or action in any court of 

 justice, for or in respect of any such pro- 

 perty, as fully and amply, to all intents and 

 purposes, as if he or she were of free con- 

 dition. 



1'5. That saving banks shall be esta- 

 blished witlii.-i the said island, for the 

 better preserving the properly of any 

 such slaves, and that interest, at and after 

 the rate of 51. per centum per annum, 

 shall be allowed upon the amount of every 

 sum of money which may be deposited in 

 any such savings banks, which interest 

 shall be a charge upon the general revenues 

 of the said island. 



26. That the savings banks throuehout 

 the .said island shall be under and subject 

 to the control and inspection of the pro- 

 tector of slaves. 



27. Tiiat no deposit of money shall at 

 any one time, or within any one week, be 

 received at any of the said savings banks, 

 from any slave, exceeding the sum of 

 twenty dollars in the viholc. 



2!i. That no duty, (ax, or impost of any 

 nature or kind wliat.soever, and that no 

 tee of office shall be hereafter paid or 



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of the slaves or slave proposed to be ma- 

 numitted, or in the absence of such owner 

 or manager, shall proceed to hear in a 

 summary way, what may be alleged by 

 the said protector and guardian of slaves, 

 and by the owner or managpr, or other per- 

 sons claiming any interest in the slave 

 proposed to be niauuuiitted ; and, in case 

 the parties or any of them shall refuse to 

 effect any such manumission, then the said 

 chief judge shall require the prelector of 

 slaves, and the owner, manager, or person 

 having the direction of any s'leli slave, each 

 to nominate an appraiser of his or her 

 value; and the said chief judge shall him- 

 self nominate an umpire between such 

 appraisers. 



31. That, upon payment to the Treasurer 

 of the said island of the appraised value, 

 tile Tieasurer shall giant to the protector 

 of slaves, a receipt for the money so to he 

 received by him ; and thereupon such 

 slave shall be free to all intents and pur- 

 poses. 



3'2. That the money to arise from the 

 nianiimissiun of any slave by virtue of Iha 

 proceedings before nienlioued, shall and 

 niay be laid out and invested under the 

 authority of the chief judge, on the ap- 

 plication of any person or persons iiiterest- 

 eil therein, in the purchase of any other 

 slave or slaves. 



33. That, before the manumissiou of any 



slave by virtue of nny private contract for 



3 K that 



