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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 married, and has had two children
born of any marriage, shall obtain the whole of Saturday for himself and
his wife, and for his own benefit, and after thirty-seven years of age,
the whole of Friday for himself and his wife: provided that in both
cases the minister of the district and the inspector of negroes shall
certify that they know nothing against his peaceable, orderly, and
industrious behavior.
[Sidenote: Huts and land to be appropriated.]
31. And be it enacted, that the master of every plantation shall provide
the materials of a good and substantial hut for each married field
negro; and if his plantation shall exceed ---- acres, he shall allot to
the same a portion of land not less than ----: and the said hut and land
shall remain and stand annexed to the said negro, for his natural life,
or during his bondage; but the same shall not be alienated without the
consent of the owners.
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