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of the several towns and parishes in this island be empowered, and 
they are hereby empowered, to lay a tax upon the inhabitants of 
the said said several towns and parishes, in the same manner as 
the parochial taxes are usually laid, for the purpose of raising 
such a sum as they shall judge sufficient to provide for the main¬ 
tenance, cloathing, medical care, and attendance, in the work- 
houses or other convenient places of the said several towns and pa¬ 
rishes of this island, of such negro, mulatto, or other -slaves, or 
other unhappy objects as aforesaid : And the magistrates respectively 
of such town and parish are hereby empowered and required, upon 
application being made to them, or either of them, to order all such 
objects as aforesaid to be removed and conveyed to the respective work- 
houses of each parish, where (if a slave) the former proprietor or pro¬ 
prietors, owner or owners, of such slave lived or resided ; or, if a 
person,of colour made free, where the person or persons who manu- 
mised or set free such person of colour resided before his decease, there 
to be lodged and taken care of as aforesaid : And the magistrates and 
vestries of the several towns and parishes as aforesaid, are hereby em¬ 
powered and required to make from time to time, all such humane and 
salutary regulations, for the purposes aforesaid, as to them shall ap¬ 
pear necessary and expedient, 
(Owners must not allow their slaves to travel without tickets , 
under penalty.) 
(Penalty on neglect of duty.) 
XVII. And whereas it is absolutely necessary, that the slaves in 
this island should be kept in due. obedience to their owners, and in 
due subordination to the white people in general, and as much as in 
the power of the legislature, all means and opportunities of slaves 
committing rebellious conspiracies, and other crimes, to the ruin and 
destruction of the white people, and others in this inland, prevented, 
and that proper punishments should be appointed for all crimes to be 
by them committed, Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That no slave, such only excepted as are going with firewood, grass, 
fruit , provisions, or small stock and other goods which they may law¬ 
fully sell, to market, and returning therefrom , shall hereafter be suf¬ 
fered or permitted to go out of his or her master or owner's plantation 
or settlement, or to travel from one town or place to another, unless 
