[Sidenote:  Registry.]

5.  And be it enacted, that the said Attorney-General, protector of negroes, shall appoint an office for registering all proceedings relative to the duty of his place as protector of negroes, and shall appoint his chief clerk to be registrar, with a salary not exceeding ——.

[Sidenote:  Ports where negroes are to be landed.  Vessels to be inspected.]

[Sidenote:  Masters or officers offending to be fined.]

6.  And be it enacted, that no negroes shall be landed for sale in any but the ports following:  that is to say, ——.  And the collector of each of the said ports severally shall, within ——­ days after the arrival of any ship transporting negroes, report the same to the protector of negroes, or to one of his inspectors; and the said protector is hereby authorized and required to examine, or cause to be examined by one of his inspectors, with the assistance of the said collector, or his deputy, and a surgeon to be called in on the occasion, the state of the said ship and negroes; and upon what shall appear to them, the said protector of negroes, and the said collector and surgeon, to be a sufficient proof, either as arising from their own inspection, or sufficient information on a summary process, of any contravention of this act, or cruelty to the negroes, or other malversation of the said captain, or any of his officers the said protector shall impose a fine on him or them, not exceeding ——­; which shall not, however, weaken or invalidate any penalty growing from the bond of the said master or his owners.  And it is hereby provided, that, if the said master, or any of his officers, shall find himself aggrieved by the said fine, he may within ——­ days appeal to the chief judge, if the court shall be sitting, or to the governor, who shall and are required to hear the said parties, and on hearing are to annul or confirm the same.

[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.]