Clause VII required a court and jury to value a person sentenced to death, banishment, or chain labor at up to £100 according to trade or occupation, and authorized public payment of that amount to the owner. People sentenced to banishment or chain labor then became “the property of the public.” The law compensated enslavers for state punishment of enslaved people and preserved property language even at the point of transfer.
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What could happen to the owner when an enslaved person was condemned under clause VII?
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Clause VII authorized payment to an owner and transfer of some condemned people to public ownership.
The act allowed the public treasury to pay an owner an appraised value for a condemned person.
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Clause VII specified appraisal and public payment, capped at £100.