[Sidenote: Rates respecting the sale of negroes.]
7. And be it enacted, that no sale of negroes shall be made but in the
presence of an inspector, and all negroes shall be sold severally, or in
known and ascertained lots, and not otherwise; and a paper containing
the state and description of each negro severally sold, and of each lot,
shall be taken and registered in the office aforesaid; and if, on
inspection or information, it shall be found that any negroes shall
have, in the same ship, or any other at the same time examined, a wife,
an husband, a brother, sister, or child, the person or persons so
related shall not be sold separately at that or any future sale.
[Sidenote: Every island to be divided into districts.]
[Sidenote: A church to be built in each.]
8. And be it enacted, that each and every of his Majesty's islands and
plantations, in which negroes are used in cultivation, shall be, by the
governor and the protector of negroes for the time being, divided into
districts, allowing as much as convenience will admit to the present
division into parishes, and subdividing them, where necessary, into
districts, according to the number of negroes.
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