ABSTRACT
An act of the Bahamas, this year, enacted, " That when any slave shall suffer death," inquiry shall be made " what treatment such slave had received from his or her owner;" and if it shall appear "'that the owner of such slave had inhumanly used him or her, and that necessity or cruel usage might have compelled such slave to run away, or to the commission of the offence for which he or she shall have suffered, the owner shall not be entitled to, or receive, any allowance for such slave." Thus it appears the slave was to be executed first, and the necessity that led to his crime be inquired into afterwards.
