Plaintiffs Negro Slaves Immigrants Great Britain United Kingdom Slave herein protected official under “British Empire” Slave Trade Act From May 1, 1807, which deemed the Slave trade shall be abolished as defendant “United States of America et al” continue for an additional 206 years well into 2013 7th Day of February 2.5 Million U.S Dollars “British Queen” legal funds for freedom of US Slave Negro American and British American Slaves legal funds, Prime Minister Theresa Mary May,Negro Sherlock Holmes Case of: “The Donald John Trump Sr. Trojan Horse” U.S. Docket No 4:2016-CV-01354 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The British Consulate 1301 Fanning Street Houston, Texas 77002-7014 USPS First Class Tracking # 9400 1118 9922 3965 1618 47

+BRITISH QUEEN Slave Negro Pro Se Plaintiff Louis Charles Hamilton II “United States Navy Veteran official property of Defendant(s) “United States of America et al, Para-Military Knights of the Klu Klux Klansmen, Federal Reserve Bank et al” Corporations listed past, and present, all Defendants (50) “States” Alabama – Wyoming collective

“Slave Trade Regime under hostile false imprisonment scheme of thing now in 2016 (December) of a continual nature surround “Slavery Servitude” status from the exact time frame of August 20^th 1619 – 2013 when “Mississippi” free this “Slave” in his both persons, and refusal to grant legal citizenship, thereafter being a “legal” born into “slavery servitude” of defendant “United States of America et al” involving, defendant (collectively) being in criminal acts and action of the very own rules of governing laws, pursuant to a “Boat load” of violation which no more seriously extreme, then crimes against humanity surrounding the continue nature of  

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act...“Slavery Servitude” money laundering statutes, 18 U.S.C. 1956 and 1957, “Slavery Servitude” money laundering statutes, RICO statute (18 U.S.C. § 1961(1)

“RICO Slave Trade International Racket” and Civil Conspire against they’re very own rules of governing laws 

•                                RICO Slave Trade Fraud

•                                § 1581 - Peonage; obstructing enforcement

•                                § 1582 - Vessels for slave trade

•                                § 1583 - Enticement into slavery

•                                § 1584 - Sale into involuntary servitude

•                                § 1585 - Seizure, detention, transportation or sale of slaves

•                                § 1586 - Service on vessels in slave trade

•                                § 1587 - Possession of slaves aboard vessel

•                                § 1588 - Transportation of slaves from United States

•                                § 1589 - Forced labor

•                                § 1590 - Trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor

•                                § 1591 - Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion

•                                § 1592 - Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor

•                                § 1593 - Mandatory restitution

§ 1593A - Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons in direct violation of “International Laws” pursuant to

ROME STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT*, Article 6 Genocide,  Article 7, Crimes against humanity  and never ending defendant (USA) 1865 “Civil War” in direct violation of Article 8 War crimes a RICO Slave Trade of Pirates and KKK Criminals Judicial Government acting under color of law in 2016 (December) defendant GOP Government Federal/State/local defendant “Federal Reserve bank et al” all 50 states  Alabama – Wyoming criminal individuals wanted for

 “International arrest warrant and Trial Before the (ICC) World Criminal Court Justices of the Hague all in 2016 official RICO slave traders being accessory after the facts of such RICO Slave Trade 1619 – 2013 un-civilization uncouth (KKK) killer whites still committed to crimes against humanity by defendant

Whites Supremacist GOP Federal/State/local Government whom destroyed all civil rights, legal citizenship of  all direct descendants of West/Central Africans brought to by force in chains with massive deaths to arrival captured now in 2016 (December) within the defendant Jurisdiction of United States of America et al. as past, present Negro Plaintiffs slaves and past and present 44.5 Million Negro Plaintiffs and        Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Afghans

        Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Albanians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Algerians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Americans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Andorrans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Angolans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Argentines

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Armenians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Aromanians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Arubans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Australians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Austrians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Azerbaijanis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bahamians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bahrainis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bangladeshis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Barbadians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Basotho

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Basques

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Belarusians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Belgians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Belizeans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bermudians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Boers

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bosniaks

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Brazilians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bretons

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” British

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” British Virgin Islanders

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bruneians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bulgarians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Macedonian Bulgarians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Burkinabès

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Burundians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Cambodians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Cameroonians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Canadians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Catalans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Cape Verdeans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Chadians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Chileans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Chinese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Colombians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Comorians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Congolese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Croatians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Cubans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Cypriots

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Turkish Cypriots

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Czechs

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Danes

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Dominicans (Republic)

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Dominicans (Commonwealth)

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Dutch

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” East Timorese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Ecuadorians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Egyptians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Emiratis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” English

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Eritreans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Estonians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Ethiopians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Falkland Islanders

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Faroese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Finns

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Finnish Swedish

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Fijians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Filipinos

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” French citizens

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Georgians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Germans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Baltic Germans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Ghanaians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Gibraltar

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Greeks

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Greek Macedonians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Grenadians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Guatemalans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Guianese (French)

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Guineans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Guinea-Bissau nationals

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Guyanese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Haitians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Hondurans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Hong Kong

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Hungarians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Icelanders

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” I-Kiribati

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Indians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Indonesians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Iranians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Iraqis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Irish

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Israelis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Italians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Ivoirians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Jamaicans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Japanese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Jordanians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kazakhs

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kenyans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Koreans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kosovars

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kurds

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kuwaitis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kyrgyzs

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Lao

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Latvians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Lebanese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Liberians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Libyans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Liechtensteiners

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Lithuanians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Luxembourgers

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Macedonians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Malagasy

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Malaysians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Malawians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Maldivians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Malians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Maltese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Manx

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Mauritians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Mexicans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Moldovans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Moroccans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Mongolians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Montenegrins

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Namibians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Nepalese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” New Zealanders

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Nicaraguans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Nigeriens

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Nigerians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Norwegians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Pakistanis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Palauans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Palestinians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Panamanians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Papua New Guineans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Paraguayans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Peruvians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Poles

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Portuguese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Puerto Ricans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Quebecers

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Réunionnais

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Romanians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Russians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Baltic Russians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Rwandans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Salvadorans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” São Tomé and Príncipe

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Saudis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Scots

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Senegalese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Serbs

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Sierra Leoneans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Singaporeans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Sindhian

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Slovaks

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Slovenes

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Somalis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Somalilanders

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” South Africans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Spaniards

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Sri Lankans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” St Lucians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Sudanese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Surinamese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Swedes

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Swiss

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Syriacs

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Syrians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tajik

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tanzanians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Thais

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tibetans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tobagonians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Trinidadians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tunisians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Turks

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tuvaluans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Ugandans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Ukrainians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Uruguayans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Uzbeks

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Vanuatuans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Venezuelans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Vietnamese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Welsh

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Yemenis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Zambians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Zimbabweans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Assyrians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Azeris

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Basques

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Bengalis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Berbers

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Boers

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Buryats

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Cajuns

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Catalans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Celts

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Chuvash

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Greeks

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Han Chinese

•          Hispanic and Latino Americans

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Hutus

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Igbo

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Indigenous Australians

•          Indigenous people of the Americas

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Japanese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Karen

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kodavas

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kurds

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Macedonians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Malays

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Mongolians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Roma

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Samis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Sikhs

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Silesians

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Sinhalese

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Syriacs

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Kannadigas

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tamils

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tatars

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Tutsis

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Zulus

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” First Nations

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Huaorani people

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Inuit

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Canadian Inuit

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Greenlandic Inuit

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Métis people

•          Plaintiff Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Born at sea

Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Algeria - Plaintiffs Negro DNA Slave “Immigrant” Zimbabwe

Negro DNA Slave Plaintiffs Native America Five Nations, the Mahicans, Six Nations, Oneida Indians, Western Nations of Indians, the sachems, chiefs, and warriors, of the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, and Delaware, Shawnee, and Pattawatamy nations,

All (Plaintiffs) collective against, peace, will, well being rights for life, dignity, civil rights official being forever “enslaved” past, present and future by defendant “United States of America”vwell into 2099  and under direct leadership governing RICO Slave Trade rule of laws, full 100% custody, control, and possession of said slave trade human negro slaves properties herein of the defendant GOP Republican Party Whites Supremacy Government”

Being 1000% in direct violation defendant “United States of America et al” against on governing rules of Laws, there after the passage of the 13th Amendment of The United States of America Constitution, ending said “slave trade” as “Plaintiff Negro Slaves” And Plaintiffs Negro Slaves Immigrants affirm and declare official “Chief Defendant “United States of America et al” being 1000% under International Laws Civil judicial forfeiture under

 Plaintiffs Negro Slaves Immigrants herein Great Britain United Kingdom Slave Trade Act From May 1, 1807, which deemed the Slave trade shall be abolished as defendant “United States of America et al” continue for an additional 206 years well into 2013 7^th Day of February “Chief Defendant “United States of America et al” being 1000%, RICO Slave Trade endeavor fully Civil judicial forfeiture (against the property) as identified

Ratified treaty # 1: The Great Treaty of 1722 Between the Five Nations, the Mahicans, and the Colonies of New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Ratified treaty # 2: Deed in Trust from Three of the Five Nations of Indians to the King, 1726.

Ratified treaty # 3: A Treaty Held at the Town of Lancaster, By the Honourable the Lieutenant Governor of the Province, and the Honourable the Commissioners for the Province of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations in June, 1744.

Ratified treaty # 4: Treaty of Logstown, 1752.

Ratified treaty # 5: The Albany Congress, and Treaty of 1754.

Ratified treaty # 6: At a Conference Held By The Honourable Brigadier General Moncton with the Western Nations of Indians, at the Camp before Pittsburgh, 12th Day of August 1760.

Ratified treaty # 7: Treaty of Fort Stanwix, or The Grant from the Six Nations to the King and Agreement of Boundary Line — Six Nations, Shawnee, Delaware, Mingoes of Ohio, 1768.

Ratified treaty # 28: Convention Between the State of New York and the Oneida Indians, June 1, 1798.

Ratified treaty # 44: A Treaty Between the United States of America and the sachems, chiefs, and warriors, of the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, and Delaware, Shawnee, and Pattawatamy nations, holden at fort Industry, on the Miami of the lake, on the 4th day of July, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and five.

Defendant “United States of America et al”, crimes against humanity direct at Plaintiffs Negro Slaves Immigrants herein Great Britain United Kingdom Slave Trade Act From May 1, 1807, which deemed the Slave trade shall be abolished

I.                   '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, upon certain Grounds therein mentioned, that they would, with all practicable Expedition, take effectual Measures for the Abolition of the African Slave Trade in such Manner, and at such

II.                 Period as might be deemed advisable, And whereas it is fit upon all and each of the Grounds mentioned in the said Resolutions, that the same should be forthwith abolished and prohibited, and declared to be unlawful';

From May 1, 1807, the Slave trade shall be abolished.

Penalty for trading in or purchasing Slaves, &c. 100l. for each Slave.

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 assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and seven, the African Slave Trade, and all and all manner of dealing and trading in the Purchase, Sale, Barter, or Transfer of Slaves, or of

Persons intended to be sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as Slaves, practiced or carried on, in, at, to or from any Part of the Coast or Countries of Africa, shall be, and the same is hereby utterly abolished, prohibited, and declared to be unlawful; and also that all and all manner of dealing, either by way of Purchase, Sale, Barter, or Transfer, or by means of any other Contract or Agreement whatever, relating to any Slaves, or to any

 Persons intended to be used or dealt with as Slaves, for the Purpose of such Slaves or Persons being removed or transported either immediately or by Transshipment at Sea or otherwise, directly or indirectly from Africa, or from any Island, Country, Territory, or Place whatever, in the West Indies, or in any other part of America, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, to any other Island, Country, Territory, or Place whatever, is hereby in like Manner utterly abolished, prohibited, and declared to be unlawful; and if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereto belonging, or in His Majesties Occupation or Possession, shall from and after the Day aforesaid, by him or themselves, or by his or their Factors or Agents or otherwise howsoever,

deal or trade in, purchase, sell, barter, or transfer, or contract or agree for the dealing or trading in, purchasing, selling, bartering, or transferring of any Slave or Slaves, or any Person or Persons intended to be sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as a Slave or Slaves contrary to the Prohibitions of this Act, he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of One hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain for each and every Slave so purchased, sold, bartered, or transferred, or contracted or agreed for as aforesaid, the One Moiety thereof to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Use of any Person who shall inform, sue, and prosecute for the same.

Vessels fitted out in this Kingdom or the Colonies, &c. for carrying on the Slave Trade shall be forfeited.

II. And be it further enacted, that from and after the said First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and seven, it shall be unlawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereto belonging, or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, to fit out, man, or navigate, or to procure to be fitted out, manned, or navigated, or to be concerned in the fitting out, manning, or navigating, or in the procuring to be fitted out, manned, or navigated, any Ship or Vessel for the Purpose of assisting in, or being employed in the carrying on of the

African Slave Trade, or in any other the Dealing, Trading, or Concerns hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful, and every Ship or Vessel which shall, from and after the Day aforesaid, be fitted out, manned, navigated, used, or employed by any such Subject or Subjects, Person or Persons, or on his or their Account, or by his or their Assistance or Procurement for any of the Purposes aforesaid, and by this Act prohibited, together with all her Boats, Guns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, shall become forfeited, and may and shall be seized and prosecuted as herein-after is mentioned and provided.

Persons prohibited from carrying as Slaves Inhabitants of Africa, the West Indies, or America, from one Place to another, or being concerned in receiving them &c.

Vessels employed in such Removal, &c. to be forfeited, as also the Property in the Slaves.

Owners, &c. so employed to forfeit 100l. for each Slave.

III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said First Day of May, One thousand eight hundred and seven, it shall be unlawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or persons, resident in this United Kingdom, or in any of the Colonies, Territories, or Dominions thereunto belonging or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, to carry away or remove, or knowingly and willfully to procure, aid, or assist in the carrying away or removing, as Slaves, or for the purpose of being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as Slaves, any of the Subjects or Inhabitants of Africa, or any Island, Country, Territory, or Place in the West Indies, or any part of America whatsoever, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of his Majesty, either immediately or by Transshipment at Sea or otherwise, directly or indirectly from Africa or from any such Island, Country, territory, or Place as aforesaid, to any other Island, Country, Territory, or

Place whatever, and that it shall also be unlawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident in this United Kingdom, or in any of the Colonies, Territories, or Dominions thereunto belonging, or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, knowingly and willfully to receive, detain, or confine on board, or to be aiding, assisting, or concerned in the receiving, detaining, or confining on board of any Ship or Vessel whatever, any such Subject or Inhabitant as aforesaid, for the Purpose of his or her being so carried away or removed as aforesaid, or of his or her being sold, transferred used, or dealt with as a Slave, in any Place or Country whatever; and if any Subject or Inhabitant, Subjects or Inhabitants of Africa, or of any Island, Country, Territory, or Place in the West Indies or America, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, shall from and after the Day aforesaid, be so unlawfully carried away or removed, detained, confined, transshipped, or received on board of any Ship or Vessel belonging in the Whole or in Part to, or employed by any Subject of His Majesty, or Person residing in His Majesty's Dominions or Colonies, or any Territory belonging to or in the Occupation of His Majesty, for any of the unlawful Purposes aforesaid, contrary to the Force and Effect, true Intent and

Meaning of the Prohibitions in this Act contained, every such Ship or Vessel in which any such Person or Persons shall be so unlawfully carried away or removed, detained, confined, transshipped, or received on board for any of the said unlawful Purposes, together with all her Boats, Guns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, shall be forfeited, and all Property or pretended Property in any Slaves or Natives of Africa so unlawfully carried away or removed, detained, confined, transshipped or received on board, shall also be forfeited, and the same respectively shall and may be seized and prosecuted as herein-after is mentioned and provided; and every Subject of His Majesty, or Person resident within this United Kingdom,

or any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereto belonging, or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation who shall, as Owner, Part Owner, Freighter or Shipper, Factor or Agent, Captain, Mate, Supercargo, or Surgeon, so unlawfully carry away or remove, detain, confine, transship, or receive on board, or be aiding or assisting in the carrying away, removing, detaining, confining, transshipping, or receiving on board, for any of the unlawful Purposes aforesaid, any such Subject or Inhabitant of Africa,

 or of any Island, Country, Territory, or Place, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, shall forfeit and pay for each and every Slave or Person so unlawful carried away, removed, detained, confined, transshipped, or received on board, the Sum of One hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain, One Moiety thereof to the Use of His Majesty, and the other Moiety to the Use of any Person who shall inform, sue, and prosecute for the same.

Subjects of Africa, &c. unlawfully carried away and imported into any British Colony, &c. as Slaves, shall be forfeited to His Majesty.

IV. And be it further enacted, That if any Subject or Inhabitant, Subjects or Inhabitants of Africa, or of any Island, Country, Territory, or Place, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, who shall, at any Time from and after the Day aforesaid, have been unlawfully carried away or removed from Africa, or from any Island, Country, Territory, or Place, in the West Indies or America, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, contrary to any of the Prohibitions or Provisions in this Act contained, shall be imported or brought into any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory, in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, and there sold or disposed of as a Slave or Slaves, or placed, detained, or kept in a State of Slavery, such Subject or Inhabitant, Subjects or Inhabitants, so unlawfully carried away, or removed and imported, shall and may be seized and prosecuted, as forfeited to His Majesty,

by such Person or Persons, in such Courts, and in such Manner and Form, as any Goods or Merchandize unlawfully imported into the same Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory, may now be seized and prosecuted therein, by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force for regulating the Navigation and Trade of his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations, and shall and may, after his or their Condemnation, be disposed of in Manner herein-after mentioned and provided.

Insurances on Transactions concerning the Slave Trade not lawful. Penalty 100l. and treble the Amount of the Premium.

V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said First Day of May One Thousand eight hundred and seven, all Insurances whatsoever to be effected upon or in respect to any of the trading, dealing, carrying, removing,

transshipping, or other Transactions by this Act prohibited, shall be also prohibited and declared to be unlawful; and if any of His Majesty's Subject's, or

any Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or within any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereunto belonging, or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, shall knowingly and willfully subscribe, effect, or make, or cause or procure to be subscribed, effected, or made, any such unlawful Insurances or Insurance, he or they shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of One hundred Pounds for every such Insurance, and also Treble the Amount paid or agreed to be paid as the Premium of any such

Insurance, the One Moiety thereof to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Use of any Person who shall inform, sue, and prosecute for the same.

Act shall not affect the trading in Slaves, exported from Africa in Vessels cleared out from Great britain on or before May 1, 1807, and landed in the West Indies by March 1, 1808, &c.

VI. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be deemed or construed to extend, to prohibit or render unlawful the dealing or trading in the Purchase, Sale, Barter, or Transfer, or the carrying away or removing for the Purpose of being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as Slaves, or the detaining or confining for the Purpose of being so carried away or removed, of any Slaves which shall be exported, carried, or removed from Africa, in any Ship or Vessel which, on or before the said

First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and seven, shall have been lawfully cleared out from Great Britain according to the Law now in force for regulating the carrying of Slaves from Africa, or to prohibit or render unlawful the manning or navigating any such Ship or Vessel, or to make void any Insurance thereon, so as the Slaves to be carried therein shall be finally landed in the West Indies on or before the First Day of March One thousand eight hundred and eight, unless prevented by Capture, the Loss of the Vessel, by the Appearance of an Enemy upon the Coast, or other unavoidable Necessity, the Proof whereof shall lie upon the Party charged; any Thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Slaves taken as Prize of War, or seized as Forfeitures, shall be condemned as prize, or forfeited to the King, for the Purpose of putting an End to their Slavery, and may be enlisted &c.

VII. 'And whereas it may happen, That during the present or future Wars, Ships or Vessels may be seized or detained as Prize, on board whereof Slaves or Natives of Africa, carried and detained as Slaves, being the

Property of His Majesty's Enemies, or otherwise liable to Condemnation as Prize of War, may be taken or found, and it is necessary to direct in what manner such Slaves or Natives of Africa shall be hereafter treated and disposed of: And whereas it is also necessary to direct and provide for the

Treatment and Disposal of any Slaves or Natives of Africa carried, removed, treated or dealt with as Slaves, who shall be unlawfully carried away or removed contrary to the Prohibitions aforesaid, or any of them, and shall be afterwards found on board any Ship or Vessel liable to Seizure under this Act, or any other Act of Parliament made for restraining or prohibiting the African Slave Trade, or shall be elsewhere lawfully seized as forfeited under this or any other such Act of Parliament as aforesaid; and it is expedient to encourage the Captors, Seizors, and Prosecutors thereof;'

Be it therefore further enacted, That all Slaves and all Natives of Africa, treated, dealt with, carried, kept, or detained as Slaves which shall at any Time from and after the said First Day of May next be seized or taken as Prize of War, or liable to Forfeiture, under this or any other Act of Parliament made for restraining or prohibiting the African Slave Trade, shall and may, for the Purposes only of Seizure, Prosecution, and

 Condemnation as Prize or as Forfeitures, be considered, treated, taken, and adjudged as Slaves and Property in the same manner as Negro Slaves have been heretofore considered, treated, taken, and adjudged, when seized as Prize of War, or as forfeited for any Offence against the Laws of Trade and Navigation respectively, but the same shall be condemned as Prize of War, or as forfeited to the sole Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the Purpose only of divesting and bearing

all other Property, Right, Title, or Interest whatever, which before existed, or might afterwards be set up or claimed in or to such Slaves or Natives of Africa so seized, prosecuted, and condemned; and the same nevertheless shall in no case be liable to be sold, disposed of, treated or dealt with as Slaves, by or on the Part of His Majesty,

His Heirs or Successors, or by or on the Part of any Person or Persons claiming or to claim from, by, or under His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, or under or by force of any such Sentence or Condemnation: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and such Officers, Civil or Military, as shall, by any general or special Order of the King in Council, be from Time to Time appointed and empowered to receive, protect, and provide for such Natives of Africa as shall be so condemned, either to enter and enlist the same, or any of them, into

His Majesty's Land or Sea Service, as Soldiers, Seamen, or Marines, or to bind the same, or any of them, whether of full Age or not, as Apprentices, for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years, to such Person or Persons, in such Place or Places, and upon such Terms and Conditions, and subject to such Regulations, as to His Majesty shall seem meet, and shall by any general of special Order of His Majesty in Council be in that Behalf directed and appointed;

 and any Indenture of Apprenticeship duly made and executed, by any Person or Person to be for the Purpose appointed by any such Order in Council, for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years, shall be of the same Force and Effect as if the party thereby bound as an Apprentice had himself or herself, when of full Age upon good Consideration, duly executed the same; and every such Native of Africa who shall be so enlisted or entered as aforesaid into any of His Majesty's Land or Sea Forces as a Soldier, Seaman, or Marine, shall be considered, treated, and dealt with in all Respects as if he had voluntarily so enlisted or entered himself.

Certain Bounties shall be paid for such Slaves to the Captors as Head Money is paid under 45 G.3. c.72. § 5.

VIII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That where any Slaves or Natives of Africa, taken as Prize of War by any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or Privateers duly commissioned, shall be finally condemned as such to His Majesty's Use as aforesaid, there shall be paid to the Captors thereof by the Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy, in like Manner as the Bounty called Head Money is now paid by virtue of an Act of Parliament, made in the Forty-fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen, and for the better and more effectually manning His Majesty's Navy during the present War, such Bounty as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors,

shall have directed by any Order in Council, so as the same shall not exceed the Sum of Forty Pounds lawful Money of Great Britain for every Man, or Thirty Pounds of like Money for every Woman, or Ten Pounds of like Money for every Child or Person not above Fourteen Years old, that shall be so taken and condemned, and shall be delivered over in good Health to the proper Officer or Officers,

Civil or Military, so appointed as aforesaid to receive, protect, and provide for the same; which Bounties shall be divided amongst the Officers, Seamen, Marines, and Soldiers on Board His Majesty's Ships of War, or hired armed Ships, in Manner, Form, and Proportion, as by His Majesty's Proclamation

for granting the Distribution of Prizes already issued, or to be issued for the Purpose is or shall be directed and appointed, and amongst the Owners, Officers, and Seamen of any private Ship or Vessel of War, in such Manner and Proportion as, by an Agreement in Writing that they shall have entered into for that Purpose, shall be directed.

Certificates to entitle to Bounty.

IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in order to entitle the Captors to receive the said Bounty Money, the Numbers of Men, Women, and Children, so taken, condemned, and delivered over, shall be proved to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, by producing, instead of the Oaths and Certificates prescribed by the said Act as to Head Money, a Copy, duly certified, of the Sentence or Decree of Condemnation, whereby the Numbers of

Men, Women, and Children, so taken and condemned, shall appear to have been distinctly proved; and also, by producing a Certificate under the Hand of the said Officer or Officers, Military or Civil, so appointed as aforesaid, and to

whom the same shall have been delivered, acknowledging that he or they hath or have received the same, to be disposed of according to His Majesty's Instructions and Regulations as aforesaid.

Claim to Bounty shall be determined by the Judge of Admiralty.

X. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That in any Cases in which Doubts shall arise whether the party or parties claiming such Bounty Money is or are entitled thereto, the same shall be summarily determined by the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, or by the Judge of any Court of Admiralty in which the Prize shall have been adjudged, subject nevertheless to an Appeal to the Lord Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.

On Condemnation of Forfeitures of Slaves for Offences against this Act, these shall be paid to the Prosecutor 13l. for a Man, 10l. for a Woman, and 3l. for a Child &c.

XI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That on the Condemnation to the Use of his Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Manner aforesaid, of any Slaves or Natives of Africa, seized and prosecuted as forfeited for any Offence against this Act, or any other Act of Parliament made for the restraining or prohibiting the African Slave Trade (except in the Case of Seizures made at Sea by the Commanders or Officers of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels

or War) there shall be paid to and to the Use of the Person who shall have sued, informed, and prosecuted the same to Condemnation, the Sums of Thirteen Pounds lawful Money aforesaid for every Man, of Ten Pounds like Money for every Woman, and of Three Pounds like Money for every Child or person under the Age of Fourteen Years, that shall be so condemned and delivered over in good Health to the said Civil or Military Officer so to be appointed to receive, protect, and provide for the same, and also the like Sums to and to the Use of the Governor or Commander in Chief of any Colony or Plantation wherein such Seizure shall have been made; but in Cases of any such Seizures made at Sea by the Commanders or Officers of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, for Forfeiture under this Act, or any other Act of Parliament made for the restraining or prohibiting the African Slave Trade, there shall be paid to the Commander of Officer who shall so seize, inform, and prosecute for every man so condemned and delivered over, the Sum of Twenty Pounds like Money, for every Woman the Sum of Fifteen Pounds like Money, and for every Child or person under the Age

of Fourteen Years the Sum of Five Pounds like Money, subject nevertheless to such Distribution of the said Bounties or Rewards for the said Seizures made at Sea as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall think fit to order and direct by any other Order of Council made for that Purpose; for all which Payments so to be made as Bounties or Rewards upon Seizures and Prosecutions for Offences against this Act, or any other Act of Parliament made for restraining the African Slave Trade, the Officer or Officers, Civil or Military, so to be appointed as aforesaid to receive, protect, and provide for such Slaves or Natives of Africa so to be condemned and delivered over, shall, after the

Condemnation and Receipt thereof as aforesaid, grant Certificates in favour of the Governor and Party seizing, informing, and prosecuting as aforesaid respectively, or the latter alone (as the Case may be) addressed to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury; who, upon the Production to them of any such Certificate, and of an authentic Copy, duly certified, of the Sentence of Condemnation of the said Slaves or Africans to His Majesty's Use as aforesaid, and also of a Receipt under the Hand of such

 Officer or Officers so appointed as aforesaid, specifying that such Slaves or Africans have by him or them been received in good Health as aforesaid, shall direct Payment to be made from and out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain of the Amount of the Monies specified in such Certificate, to the lawful Holders of the same, or the Persons entitled to the Benefit thereof respectively.

Counterfeiting Certificates Felony without Clergy.

XII. And be it further enacted, That if any Person shall willfully and fraudulently forge or counterfeit any such Certificate, Copy of Sentence of Condemnation, or Receipt as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, or shall knowingly and willfully utter or publish the same, knowing it to he forged or counterfeited, with Intent to defraud His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, or any other Person or Persons whatever, the Party so offending shall, on Conviction, suffer Death as in Cases of Felony, without Benefit of Clergy.

Recovery and Application of Penalties and Forfeitures.

4 G.3. c.15.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That the several Pecuniary Penalties or Forfeitures imposed and inflicted by this Act, shall and may be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any Court of Record or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions wherein the Offence was committed, or where the Offender may be found after the Commission of such Offence; and that in all Cases of Seizure of any Ships, Vessels, Slaves or pretended Slaves, Goods or Effects, for any Forfeiture under this Act, the same shall and may respectively be sued for; prosecuted and recovered in any Court of Record in Great Britain or in any Court of Record or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions in or nearest to which such Seizures may be made, or to which such Ships or Vessels, Slaves or pretended Slaves, Goods or Effects

 (if seized at Sea or without the Limits of any British Jurisdiction) may most conveniently be carried for Trial, and all the said Penalties and Forfeitures, whether pecuniary or specific (unless where it is expressly otherwise provided for by this Act) shall go and belong to such Person and Persons in such Shares and Proportions, and shall and may be sued for and prosecuted, tried, recovered, distributed, and applied in such and the like Manner

 and by the same Ways and Means, and subject to the same Rules and Directions, as any Penalties or Forfeitures incurred in Great Britain, and in the British Colonies or Plantations in America respectively, by force of any Act of Parliament relating to the Trade and Revenues of the said British Colonies or Plantations in America, now go and belong to, and may now be sued for, prosecuted, tried, recovered, distributed and applied respectively in

 Great Britain or in the said Colonies or Plantations respectively, under and by virtue of a certain Act of Parliament made in the Fourth Year of His present Majesty, intituled: An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, for continuing, amending, and making perpetual an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, King George the Second, intituled: 'an Act for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America; for applying the Produce of such Duties to arise by virtue of the said Act towards defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the said Colonies and Plantations; for explaining an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled: "An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation trade, and for altering and disallowing several Drawbacks on Exports from this Kingdom, and more effectively preventing the clandestine Conveyance of Goods to and from the said Colonies and Plantations, and improving and securing the Trade between the same and Great Britain."'

Seizures may be made by Officers of Customs or Excise, or Navy.

XIV. And be it further enacted, That all Ships and Vessels, Slaves or Natives of Africa, carried, conveyed, or dealt with as Slaves, and all other Goods and Effects that shall or may become forfeited for any Offence committed against this Act, shall and may be seized by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or by the Commanders or Officers of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, who, in making and prosecuting any such Seizures, shall have the Benefit of all the Provisions made by the said Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty, or any other Act of Parliament made for the Protection of Officers seizing and prosecuting for any Offence against the said Act, or any other Act of Parliament relating to the Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in America.

Offences triable as if committed in Middlesex.

XV. And be it further enacted, That all Offences committed against this Act may be inquired of, tried, determined, and dealt with as Misdemeanors, as if the same had been respectively committed within the Body of the County of Middlesex.

His Majesty may make Regulations for Disposal of Negroes after their Apprenticeship.

XVI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty in Council, from Time to Time to make such Orders and Regulations for the future Disposal and Support of such Negroes as shall have been bound Apprentices under this Act, after the term of their Apprenticeship shall have expired, as to His Majesty shall seem meet, and as may prevent such Negroes from becoming at any Time chargeable upon the Island in which they shall have been so bound Apprentices as aforesaid.

Negroes enlisted as Soldiers not entitled to Pensions, &c.

XVII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That none of the Provisions of any Act as to enlisting for any limited Period of Service, or as to any Rules or Regulations for the granting any Pensions or Allowances to any Soldiers discharged after certain Periods of Service, shall extend, or be deemed or construed in any Manner to extend, to any Negroes so enlisting and serving in any of His Majesty's Forces.

General Issue.

Treble Costs.

XVIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced either in Great Britain or elsewhere, against any Person or Persons for any Thing done in pursuance of this Act, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited or discontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if Judgement shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants shall recover Treble Costs and have the like Remedy for the same, as Defendants have in other Cases by Law.

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