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An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the forty-seventh Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade." May 14, 1811.

WHEREAS the two Houses of Parliament did, by their resolutions of the tenth and twenty-fourth days of June one thousand eight hundred and six, severally resolve, that the African Slave Trade being contrary to the principles of justice, humanity, and sound policy, they would, with all practicable expedition, take effectual measures for the Abolition of the same: and whereas, in conformity with the said resolutions, and for all and each of the reasons therein stated, the said trade was, by an act passed in the forty-seventh year of his present Majesty, declared to be unlawful: and whereas it hath been found that divers persons, not deterred by the provisions and penalties of the said act, do still continue to deal and trade in Slaves upon the coast of Africa, and elsewhere, and to carry them for sale by sea: and whereas the Commons House of Parliament, by its resolution of the fifteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and ten, did express its indignation at such practices, and did resolve speedily to take into consideration such measures as might tend effectually to prevent such daring violations of the law and

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whereas it is fit that such measures should be extended also to the effectual Abolition of the Slave Trade wheresoever it may be attempted to practise it; be it therefore 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 asSubjects or sembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any persons re- subject or subjects of his Majesty, or if any person or siding in the United persons residing or being within this United Kingdom, or Kingdom, in any of the islands, colonies, dominions, forts, settledominions ments, factories, or territories now or hereafter belonging belonging to thereto, or being in his Majesty's occupation or possession, his Majesty, or under the government of the united company of mercarrying on the Slave chants trading to the East Indies, shall, from and after the first day of June next, by him or themselves, or by gaged there- his or their factors or agents, or otherwise howsoever, in, shall be carry away or remove, or aid or assist in the carrying away or removing, as a slave or slaves, or for the purpose of being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as a slave or slaves, any person or persons whatsoever, from any part of Africa, or from any other country, territory, or place whatsoever, either immediately, or by transhipment at sea or otherwise, directly or indirectly; or shall import or bring, or aid or assist in the importing or bringing, into any island, colony, country, territory, or place whatsoever, any such person or persons as aforesaid, for the purpose aforesaid; or shall knowingly and wilfully ship, embark, receive, detain, or confine on board any ship, vessel, or boat, any such person or persons as aforesaid, for the purpose of his, her, or their being so carried away or removed, imported or brought as aforesaid, or of being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as a slave or slaves; or shall knowingly and wilfully use or employ, or permit to be used or employed, or let or take to freight or on hire any ship or vessel to be used or employed in carrying away or removing, importing or bringing, or for the purpose of carrying away or removing, importing or bringing

as aforesaid, any such person or persons, as a slave or slaves, or for the purpose of his, her, or their being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as a slave or slaves; or shall fit out or cause to be fitted out, or shall take the charge or command of, or navigate, or enter and embark on board, any such ship or vessel, as master or captain mate, supercargo, or surgeon, knowing that such ship or vessel is actually employed, or is, in the same voyage for which he or they shall so enter and embark on board, intended to be employed in carrying or removing, importing or bringing as aforesaid any such person or persons, as, or for the purpose of his, her, or their being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as, a slave or slaves; then and in every such case, the person or persons so offending and their counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be and are hereby declared to be felons, and shall be transported beyond seas for a term not exceeding fourteen years, or shall be confined and kept to hard labour for a term not exceeding five years, nor less than three years, at the discretion of the court, before whom such offender or offenders shall be tried and convicted.

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II. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Punishment authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons shall, of persons from and after the first day of May next, enter or navigate board any or embark on board any such ship or vessel used and em- ship, or un ployed, or meant and intended to be used and employed as any policy aforesaid, as a petty officer, servant or seaman, or petty officers, servants, or seamen, knowing that such is or shall be the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the voyage, or if any person or persons shall underwrite, or procure to be underwritten, any policy of assurance upon any ship or vessel, or goods, or the freight of any ship or vessel, employed or intended to be employed in any such voyage, knowing that such is or shall be the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the said voyage, he or they, nevertheless shall not be deemed guilty of a felony within the meaning of this Act, but shall be, and they are hereby declared to

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be guilty of a misdemeanor only, and shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

III. And it is hereby further enacted and declared, that to be deem- such persons shall not be deemed to be, nor shall be punished as, accessaries to felony; any thing in this present Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

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IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the prevent the authority aforesaid, that nothing in this Act contained shall removing slaves from extend, or be construed to extend, to subject any person or one British persons to the pains and penalties hereby imposed for settlement exporting, removing, or carrying from any present or future British island, colony, or settlement in the West Indies, to any other present or future British island, colony or settlement in the West Indies, or from one part of such British island, colony or settlement in the West Indies, to any other part of the same island, colony or settlement, or for importing or transporting into or landing in any such island, colony or settlement, any slave or slaves, which have been or shall be born within such islands, colonies or settlements, or any slave or slaves which shall have been or may be lawfully imported or brought into the said islands, colonies or settlements, or for removing or carrying any slave or slaves from one part of any foreign island, colony or settlement, to another part of the same foreign island, colony or settlement, or for transhipping and assisting at sea any slave or slaves, which shall be in Nor prevent any ship or vessel in distress; provided also that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to prevent the transportation to any foreign colony or place, of any slave or slaves that shall have been convicted by due course of law in any have been present or future British island or colony, of any crime to convicted of which the punishment of transportation is or shall be an

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nexed by the law of such island or colony; but in every such case a copy of the judgment or sentence, certified by the Court before which the offender was convicted, shall be put on board in the ship or vessel in which any such convict shall be transported.