[Sidenote: Power to challenge jurors.]
2. And it is further enacted, that in all trials of such informations
the said protector of negroes may and is hereby authorized to challenge
peremptorily a number not exceeding ---- of the jury who shall be
impanelled to try the charge in the said information contained.
[Sidenote: To appoint inspectors of districts.]
[Sidenote: who are to report to him twice in the year the number and
condition of the slaves.]
3. And be it enacted, that the said Attorney-General, protector of
negroes, shall appoint inspectors, not exceeding the number of ----, at
his discretion; and the said inspectors shall be placed in convenient
districts in each island severally, or shall twice in the year make a
circuit in the same, according to the direction which they shall receive
from the protector of negroes aforesaid; and the inspectors shall and
they are hereby required, twice in the year, to report in writing to the
protector aforesaid the state and condition of the negroes in their
districts or on their circuit severally, the number, sex, age, and
occupation of the said negroes on each plantation; and the overseer or
chief manager on each plantation is hereby required to furnish an
account thereof within [ten days] after the demand of the said
inspectors, and to permit the inspector or inspectors aforesaid to
examine into the same; and the said inspectors shall set forth, in the
said report, the distempers to which the negroes are most liable in the
several parts of the island.
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