 No slave shall receive more than ten lashes, except in presence of owner or overseer ; nor, in such presence, more than thirty-nine in one day, nor until recovered from former punishment; under penalty of £20.  The Anti-slavery Reporter - Page 3001831Full view - About this book
 | Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, William Empson, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox - 1831
...allowed ; but not more than three days in succession. Punishment. 36. No slave shall receive more than 10 lashes, except in presence of owner or overseer, , nor in such presence more than 39 in any one day, nor until recovered from former ishinent : under penalty of 20/. — §37. No person... | |
 | Alexander Barclay, Jamaica - Social Science - 1827 - 512 pages
...is not to be worked, till further enquiry is made — same as 26 of law of 1816. (36) Slaves not to receive more than ten lashes, except in presence of owner or overseer, fee. nor in such presence mitre than thirty-nine, nor until recovered from former whipping, under penalty,... | |
![The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate](http://bks3.books.google.co.uk/books?id=pCUEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate") | 1830
...clause, which they number 36, (instead of 37,) and which they have thus abstracted. " Slaves not to receive more than ten lashes, except in presence of owner or overseer, &c., nor in such presence more than thirty-nine, nor until recovered from former punishment, under... | |
 | London Society for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions, Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (London, England) - 1831
...clause, which they number 36, (instead of 37,) and which they have thus abstracted. " Slaves not to receive more than ten lashes, except in presence of owner or overseer, &c., nor in such presence more than thirty-nine, nor until recovered from former punishment, under... | |
 | Zachary Macauley, Society for mitigating and gradually abolishing the state of slavery throughout the British Dominions, Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions - Social Science - 1831
...clause, which they number 36, (instead of 37,) and which they have thus abstracted. " Slaves not to receive more than ten lashes, except in presence of owner or overseer, &c., nor in such presence more than thirty-nine, nor until recovered from former punishment, under... | |
 | Robert Hall, John Foster - Religion - 1832
...some of them "as an emblem of authority." In Jamaica, and a few other islands, it is enacted, "that no slave shall receive more than ten lashes, except in presence of owner or oversetr, A i- ; nor, In such presence, more than thirty-nine in any one day, nor until recovered from... | |
 | Bernard Martin Senior - History - 1835 - 317 pages
...the workhouse for protection, until the case can be legally and thoroughly investigated. 37. — That no slave shall receive more than ten lashes, except in presence of owner or overseer; nor even in their presence, more than thirtv-nine lashes; nor shall a second punishment take place under... | |
 | Bernard Martin Senior - History - 1835 - 317 pages
...workhouse for protection, until the case can be legally and thoroughly investigated. t 37. — That no slave shall receive more than ten lashes, except in presence of owner or overseers nor even in their presence, more than thirty -\ine lashes; nor shall a second punishment... | |
 | Business & Economics - 1831
...legislatures, and among them of that of Jamaica, tell us that " the existing laws," of which they pofess to give an " abstract," " are either entirely new,...latest Slave Code of Jamaica, with precisely the same grim and ferocious aspect which it exhibited in the consolidated Slave Act of 1788, and in every intermediate... | |
 | George Jackson - Religion - 1832 - 220 pages
...document curiously placed under the title, " And, in order to restrain arbitrary punishments :"—" No slave shall receive more than ten lashes, except...former punishment, under penalty of £20." This is boasted of as a part of a recent enactment, and it applies to the island of Jamaica ! But the most... | |
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