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[Acts passed by the General Assembly of South-Carolina, May 10, 1740-July 10, 1742]
Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes in this province
139 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 31 cm. (folio)
The only known copy, held by the Library of Congress, lacks the title page. According to Gould and Morgan, the first 28 pages were issued in 1740; the title page may have been removed when pages 29-139 were added in 1742.
Caption title, page 3: An act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other slaves in this province.
Peter Timothy was printer to the General Assembly at this time.
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40211).
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40286).