tricts.]

[Sidenote: who are to report to him twice in the year the number and
condition of the slaves.]

3. And be it enacted, that the said Attorney-General, protector of
negroes, shall appoint inspectors, not exceeding the number of ----, at
his discretion; and the said inspectors shall be placed in convenient
districts in each island severally, or shall twice in the year make a
circuit in the same, according to the direction which they shall receive
from the protector of negroes aforesaid; and the inspectors shall and
they are hereby required, twice in the year, to report in writing to the
protector aforesaid the state and condition of the negroes in their
districts or on their circuit severally, the number, sex, age, and
occupation of the said negroes on each plantation; and the overseer or
chief manager on each plantation is hereby required to furnish an
account thereof within [ten days] after the demand of the said
inspectors, and to permit the inspector or inspectors aforesaid to
examine into the same; and the said inspectors shall set forth, in the
said report, the distempers to which the negroes are most liable in the
several parts of the island.

[Sidenote: Instructions to be formed for inspectors.]

4. And be it enacted, that the said protector of negroes, by and with
the consent the governor and chief judge of each island, shall form
instructions, by which the said inspectors shall discharge their trust
in the manner the least capable of exciting any unreasonable hopes in
the said negroes, or of weakening the proper authority of the overseer,
and shall transmit them to one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of
state; and when sent back with his approbation, the same shall become
the rule for the conduct of the said inspectors.

[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 negroe