The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801, Volume 2Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1896 - Law |
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Page 77
... NEGROES . Whereas some difficulties have arisen within this province and territories about the manner of trial and punishment of ne- groes committing murder , manslaughter , buggery , burglary , rapes , attempts of rapes and other high ...
... NEGROES . Whereas some difficulties have arisen within this province and territories about the manner of trial and punishment of ne- groes committing murder , manslaughter , buggery , burglary , rapes , attempts of rapes and other high ...
Page 78
... negroes , who shall hold a court for the hearing , trying , judging , determining and convict- ing of such negro or negroes as shall be before them charged or accused of committing any murder , manslaughter , buggery , burglary , rapes ...
... negroes , who shall hold a court for the hearing , trying , judging , determining and convict- ing of such negro or negroes as shall be before them charged or accused of committing any murder , manslaughter , buggery , burglary , rapes ...
Page 79
... negroes within this government shall commit a rape or ravishment upon any white woman or maid , or shall commit murder , buggery or burglary , they shall be tried as aforesaid , and shall be punished by death ; and if any negro shall ...
... negroes within this government shall commit a rape or ravishment upon any white woman or maid , or shall commit murder , buggery or burglary , they shall be tried as aforesaid , and shall be punished by death ; and if any negro shall ...
Page 145
... negroes ( 59 ) ; An act to prevent sickly vessels coming into this government ( 60 ) ; An act requiring all masters and commanders of all ships and ves- sels to make report at the town of Newcastle that are or shall be bound to and from ...
... negroes ( 59 ) ; An act to prevent sickly vessels coming into this government ( 60 ) ; An act requiring all masters and commanders of all ships and ves- sels to make report at the town of Newcastle that are or shall be bound to and from ...
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... NEGROES . Whereas some difficulties have arisen within this province about the manner of trial and punishment of negroes commit- ting murder , manslaughter , buggery , burglary , rapes , attempts of rapes and other high and heinous ...
... NEGROES . Whereas some difficulties have arisen within this province about the manner of trial and punishment of negroes commit- ting murder , manslaughter , buggery , burglary , rapes , attempts of rapes and other high and heinous ...
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Page 217 - I do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 183 - Be it declared and enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That if any Person or Persons shall...
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Page 200 - Request to have it allowed and approved accordingly, if the said above bounden being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said Letters of Administration (Approbation of such Testament being first had and made) in the said Court; then this Obligation to be void and of none Effect, or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
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