the said plantation, or of the which list shall be entitled the

same owner or owners, List of Families of Slaves on

the Plantation of A. B.' (inserting the proper name of the plantation), or of C. D. the owner of Personal Slaves,' (as the case may be); and the said list shall be divided into as many sections as there are different families to be inserted therein, and each section shall be entitled, The Family of A. B.' inserting the name of the superior relation, or, where there are only brothers, or other relations of the same degree, the name of the elder individual; and each of the said schedules shall also contain two other lists, in one of which shall be inserted the names of such male slaves, and in the other of such female slaves, as have no wives or husbands, parents or children, brothers or sisters, among the slaves of the same plantation, or the same owner or owners; which lists shall be respectively entitled, General List of Male Slaves' and General List of Female Slaves' on the plantation of A. B. (inserting the proper name of the plantation), or belonging to C. D.' as the case may be.

"And all the slaves attached or belonging to the same plantation, or the same owner or owners, shall be named and described in the said schedule respectively, in the particular lists or sections to which they respectively belong, in the manner and form following, (that is to say)

"The schedule or paper containing each of the said lists shall be divided into eight perpendicular columns, of convenient breadths, respectively entitled at the heads thereof, Names, Surnames, Colours, Employment, Age, Stature, Country, and Marks; to which shall be added, in the lists of families, a ninth column, of convenient breadth, entitled Relations; and the more clearly to distinguish the description of each particular slave, as many horizontal lines, with convenient spaces between them, shall be drawn across the said perpendicular lines or columns, as are equal in number to the number of slaves to be inserted in each list.

"And in the first of the said columns shall be inserted the name of baptism of each slave, if he or she shall have been baptized, and, if not, the name by which he or she has been usually called and known. In the second of the said columns

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shall be inserted the surname or second name of the slave, if he or she has ever been called or known by any surname or second name; and if not, then, in cases of Family Slaves included in the said lists of families, the name of the superior relation; and in the cases of slaves who are included in the said general lists of males and females, such name as the owner or party making the return shall think fit to insert therein as the surname by which the slave and his lawful issue, or her natural issue, and their descendants respectively, shall thereafter always be called; provided, nevertheless, that in cases of Family Slaves, the owner or party making the return may also give, if he thinks fit, some other family name instead of that of the superior relation, so as no two families on the same plantation, or belonging to the same owner, shall have the same surname in the said shedule or return; but for all the purposes of this order, the surname by which each slave shall first be returned and registered, shall continue for ever after to be the surname of such slave, and of his lawful issue, if a male, or her natural issue, if a female, and of their respective descendants, and shall not afterwards be changed. In the third of the said columns shall be inserted Negro, Mulatto, or Mustee, as the case may be, or such designation of intermediate shades of colour within the limited degrees of slavery, if any, as are in use within the said island. In the fourth of the said columns shall be inserted the particular trade, occupation, or ordinary employment of the slave, specifying, in the cases of mechanics, artisans, or handicraftmen, the particular art or business in which he or she is usually employed; in the cases of Family Slaves, the particular domestic service or department in which he or she is usually employed; and in cases of ordinary Plantation Slaves, describing them as labourers only. And in the fifth of the said. columns shall be inserted the age of the slave, according to the best of the knowledge and belief of the owner, or other party making the return. In the sixth of the said columns shall be inserted the exact stature, in feet and inches, by ac⚫tual measurement, of the slave, which measurement, in cases of infant slaves, or such as have not clearly attained to their full growth, shall be repeated prior to every annual return

hereinafter directed to be made. In the seventh of the said columns shall be inserted, not only whether the slave is an African or Creole Negro, but, if an African, the name of the country or district of Africa from which he or she was brought, and, if a Creole Slave, the name of the island or colony in which such slave was born, or from which he or she was brought, according to the best of the knowledge or information and belief of the owner, or other party making the return. And in the eighth of the said columns shall be inserted, whether the slave has any, and what, seams and marks on the face, or other parts of the body, such as African Slaves commonly have, and which are usually called country marks, or any such brands or marks as are used in some of the colonies for distinguishing the owner's property, or has any ap parent bodily singularity, defect, or deformity: all which shall be specified, with convenient certainty, so as at least to mention the part of the face or body wherein the marks, brands, defects, or other singularity appear. And lastly, in

the further column to be added as aforesaid in the lists of Family Slaves, shall be inserted the relation that the slave bears to the superior relative, or slave, by whose name the Family Section of the list to which he belongs is entitled as aforesaid, with such further particulars of genealogy or family connection, as the owner or party making the return shall think fit to add; and at the end of the said returns respectively, shall be summed up and set down, in words at length, the whole number of slaves then belonging to the plantation, for which, or the owner or owners of Personal Slaves, on whose behalf such returns are made.

"And for the better ascertaining of the proper form of such returns of slaves as are hereby required to be made, so that no person may pretend ignorance thereof, a form or example of such returns is contained in a schedule to this order annexed; to which all persons are required, so far as shall be found practicable, to conform; and at the time of promulgating and publishing this order in the said island as aforesaid, public notice shall be given by the said governor, lieutenant-governor, or civil commander in chief, in such manner as to him shall

seem most fit and effectual, that a form or example of the returns hereby required to be made may be seen, and a printed copy thereof, with blanks, to be filled up according to the rule aforesaid, obtained at the Register Office to be appointed as aforesaid, and printed blank copies of the said forms shall accordingly be provided by the Registrar, and delivered to all persons applying for the same, at a price not exceeding three pence for each printed copy.

"That every person making and subscribing any and every such schedule or return shall personally deliver the same, either to the said Registrar, or to some other person that shall be by him appointed and deputed to receive such returns or schedules, in the proper district of the said island, in which the party making the same shall reside, and shall swear to the truth thereof.

"That within one calendar month, to be computed from the time herein-before appointed for the making and delivery of the said returns or schedules, every return or schedule that shall have been duly made and delivered to the said Registrar, or any of his said deputies, shall, by him, his clerks, or assistants, be entered and copied in a fair, distinct, and legible manner, in the proper book to be by the said Registrar appointed for the registry and enrolment of slaves as aforesaid, (that is to say)—

"Every such return or schedule of slaves attached or belonging to any plantation or plantations, in the book to be entitled Registry of Plantation Slaves,' and every other such return or schedule in the book to be entitled Registry of Personal Slaves,' the former under the name of the plantation, and the latter under the name or names of the owner or owners, mentioned in the return; which name or names shall be written in a large hand at the top of every double page or folio containing the return.

"That every double page or folio of each of the said books, (that is to say)-the whole breadth of the book when open, from the left to the right hand, shall be divided by perpendicular lines into ten different columns of such breadth, and by horizontal lines into spaces of such dimensions as will most

conveniently contain the various particulars herein-before directed to be returned in the said schedules or lists of slaves ; and such further entries in the tenth column as are hereinafter directed to be made, leaving, at the top of each folio, a space for the name of the particular plantation or owner whose slaves are registered therein; which name shall be always there written in large and distinct letters: and at the top of the first of the said ten columns shall be written, Names;' of the second, Surnames;' of the third, Colour;' of the fourth, Employment;' of the fifth, Age;' of the sixth, Stature;' of the seventh, Country;' of the eighth, Marks;' of the ninth, Relations;' and of the tenth, 'Corrections;' and under each of the said titles in the nine former columns shall be entered, in a plain, distinct, and durable hand, according to the different schedules or lists returned, the particulars respectively contained in the same, distinguishing the families of slaves from each other, and from the general lists of individual slaves, by their proper titles; and at the end of the registry of each original return shall be summed up and written, in words at length, the whole number of slaves returned and registered as belonging to the plantation, or to the owner or owners mentioned in such return; that the pages of the said books shall be distinctly numbered at the top of each double page or folio, from the beginning to the end of each book respectively, before any entry shall be made therein; and at the bottom of each page, containing any registry of slaves, as well as at the end of the registry of each original return, the Registrar shall subscribe his name at length, in testimony of the fidelity and accuracy of the entries therein contained. "That no erasure all on any pretence, or for any cause whatever, be at any time permitted to be made in the said shall occur in the

books of registry; but if any clerical error insertion of any name or other particular in any schedule or return contained, or otherwise, in the making up and keeping the said books of registry, a line of red ink shall be drawn through the word or words mproperly inserted, so as to leave the original word or words egible; and the correction thereof, or any word or words whichmay have been erroneously omit