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"of said Code; the 5th paragraph to as enumerated in section two of chapter two hundred and three of said Code; all acts and parts of acts imposing on negroes the penalty of stripes, where the same penalty is not imposed on white persons; and all other acts and parts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed."

It is nowhere "otherwise specifically provided" (except in a single instance as to testimony); on the contrary the crimes of rape and insurrection are punished alike in the white man and the negro.

These provisions virtually abolishing the old Slave Code, bring up the negro to a level with the white man in many practical points, giving him even the great magna carta privilege of trial by jury.
 
As to admission to testify, the following is the law

"1st. Be it enacted by the general assembly that colored persons and Indians shall, if otherwise competent, and subject to the rules applicable to other persons, be admitted as

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