^32 APPENDIX TO Vol. III. 



everv thing regulated in the fame manner as other moveables, with 

 the following exceptions. 



[o] XLVII. The hulband and wife, and their young children, 

 {hall not be feized and fold feparately, if they are under the power 

 of the fame mafler, we declare fuch feizures and fales to be void ; 

 which reftriftion we mean fliould extend alfo to thofe who alienate 

 a part of fuch divided families of flaves. The fellers in fuch cafe 

 (hall forfeit the refidue of the parcel, which (hall be adjudged to 

 the purchafers of the other part aforefaid, without being com- 

 pellable to the paym.ent of any further or additional fum for the 

 whole number. 



XLVlll. Slaves, aftually employed in fugar-works, indigo 

 works, and plantations, from the age of fourteen to fixty, (hall 

 not be feized for debt ; unlefs it be for what may be due for their 

 purchafe-money ; and unlefs the fugar or indigo works, or plan- 

 tations, wherein they are employed, are at the fame time adlually 

 under extent or feizu re. We forbid, on pain of nullity, to proceed 

 with fuch feizure and judicial fale of aiiy fuch fugar or indigo works, 

 and plantations, without comprehending therein all flaves of th 

 above age, and adually employed upon them. 



XLIX. The lawful renters, or lefl'ees, of fugar or indigo works, 



and plantations, adually attached, together with the flaves, (liall 



be obliged to pay the full rent or value of their leafe, without being 



allowed to dedu£l any thing for the children of the lealed flaves, 



,.^A)oni during the courfe of the procefs. 



L. We will, that, notwithftanding all conventions or agreements 

 to the contrary, which we hereby declare null, the faid children 

 (hall belong to the Icflbr of the premifes, in cale the creditors are 

 othcrwife fatisfied; or to the party to whom the eftate (hall be ad- 

 judged in purfuance of a decree; and to this effedl mention (liall 

 be made, in the lad publick notice given, before the iflliing of fuch 

 decree, of all fuch children born of flaves fince the final ieizure; 

 and in the fame public notice a li(l or account fliall likewife be 



[«] The provifions, contaiiitd in tlic 47th. 48tli, jift, :ui(l jjd, anick-s, arc founded upon the 

 wifert policy; and are well defcrving our adoption in Jamaica, where the feverancc of Negroes 

 from land has been always produflive of infinite hardlliips to thcni, of llupcrulous lofs to the 

 iflanJ, and impediment to its further improvement and cultivation. 



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