A list of acts.
by Lisa Y. Henderson
NEWBERN, FEBRUARY 14.
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A list of some of the acts passed during the last session of the General Assembly.
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To prevent the importation and bringing of slaves and servants of colour into this state.
To prevent the owners of slaves from hiring them their time; to make compensation for patroles, and to restrain the abuses committed by free negroes and mulattoes.
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To emancipate Jack, alias Jack Small, a person of colour.
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North Carolina Gazette, New Bern, 14 February 1795.