Slave Compensation Act 1837
- Slave Compensation Act 1837
The Slave Compensation Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 3) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on December 23, 1837. It empowered the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, under the direction of the Treasury, to either pay the compensation which was still owing to slave-owners out of the West India Compensation Account, or to transfer a proportionate amount of 3½% government annuities. The various acts of William IV which related to slave compensation were to be considered, as far as applicable, to apply to this act.
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*"The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for the year 1839". The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London, 1839.
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