ch district shall have,
with the assent of the inspector, full power and authority to punish all
acts of adultery, unlawful concubinage, and fornication, amongst
negroes, on hearing and a summary process, by ordering a number of
blows, not exceeding ----, for each offence; and if any white person
shall be proved, on information in the supreme court, to be exhibited by
the protector of negroes, to have committed adultery with any negro
woman, or to have corrupted any negro woman under sixteen years of age
he shall be fined in the sum of ----, and shall be forever disabled from
serving the office of overseer of negroes, or being attorney to any
plantation.

[Sidenote: Concerning marriage.]

25. And be it enacted, that no slaves shall be compelled to do any work
for their masters for [three] days after their marriage.

[Sidenote: Concerning pregnant women.]

26. And be it enacted, that no woman shall be obliged to field-work, or
any other laborious work, for one month before her delivery, or for six
weeks afterwards.

[Sidenote: Separation of husband and wife, and children, to be avoided.]

27. And be it enacted, that no husband and wife shall be sold
separately, if originally belonging to the same master; nor shall any
children under sixteen be sold separately from their parents, or one
parent, if one be living.

[Sidenote: Concerning the same.]

28. And be it enacted, that, if an husband and wife, which before their
intermarriage belonged to different owners, shall be sold, they shall
not be sold at such a distance as to prevent mutual help and
cohabitation; and of this distance the minister shall judge, and his
certificate of the inconvenient distance shall be valid, so as to make
such sale unlawful, and to render the same null and void.

[Sidenote: Negroes not to work on Saturday afternoon or Sunday.]

29. And be it enacted, that no negro shall be compelled to work for his
owner at field-work, or any service relative to a plantation, or to work
at any handicraft trade, from eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon until
the usual working hour on Monday morning.

[Sidenote: Other cases of exemption from labor.]

30. And whereas habits of industry and sobriety, and the means of
acquiring and preserving property, are proper and reasonable
preparatives to freedom, and will secure against an abuse of the same:
Be it enacted, that every negro man, who shall have served ten years,
and is thirty years of age, and is