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ministrator, or overseer, supervisor, or gaol-keeper shall, on any ac_ 
count, punish a slave with more than thirty-nine lashes at one time, 
and for one offence, nor inflict, or suffer to be inflicted, such last-men¬ 
tioned punishment, nor any other number of lashes, in the same day , 
nor until the delinquent has recovered from the effects, of any former 
punishment, under the penalty of ten pounds for every offence, to be 
recovered against the person directing or permitting such punishment. 
(Putting iron collars or other chains enslaves, prohibited.) 
XV. And vshereas a mischievous practice hath sometimes prevailed 
of punishing ill-disposed slaves, and such as are apt to abscond from 
their owners, by fixing or causing to be fixed round the necks of such 
slaves, an iron collar with projecting bars or hooks, to prevent the fu¬ 
ture desertion of such slaves ; Be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That such practice is hereby declared to be utterly unlawful , 
and that no person shall, on any pretence whatsoever, under the penal¬ 
ty of fifty pounds, punish any negro or other slave, whether his own 
property or othervsise , by fixing, or causing to be fixed any iron or other 
collar round the neck of such slave, or by loading the body or limbs of 
such slave, for any offence whatsoever, with chains, irons or weights, 
of any kind, other than such as are absolutely necessary for securing the 
person of such slave ; and all and every the justices of the peace, with¬ 
in this island, are hereby authorised, directed and required, under the 
penalty of one hundred pounds, on information and view of such offence, 
to order such collar, chains, irons, or weights, to be immediately taken 
off from the slave or slaves wearing or bearing the same . 
(Justices and vestry to support disabled negroes.) 
( Hovj such slaves are disposed of.) 
XVI. And whereas, from the decease and removal of residence of 
many proprietors of slaves, and other circumstances, and from the 
manumission of negro, mulatto, and other slaves, without any suita¬ 
ble provision being made for their future maintenance, many unhap¬ 
py objects, afflicted with contagious distempers, or disabled from la¬ 
bour by sickness, old age, and otherwise, and, having no owners, 
prove dangerous, or become a burthen and nuisance to the several 
towns and parishes of this island : For remedy whereof, Beit further 
enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the justices and vestrymen 
