=1786, Jan. 3.= Treaty with the Choctaws, Art. I. =1786, Jan. 10.= Treaty with the Chickasaws, Art. I. Identical clauses. The Indians "to restore all the Negroes and all other property taken during the late war." =1786, June 31.= Treaty with the Shawanees. Art. I. "All prisoners white and black taken in the late war from among the citizens of the United States by the Shawanee nation shall be restored."--_Statutes at Large, VII. 18, 21, 25, 26._ =6. Fugitive clause in Northwest Ordinance of 1787. [§ 14]= =1787, July 13.= Art. VI. "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; _provided_, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service aforesaid." Read first time, July 11, 1787. Passed July 13, 1787.--¤ _Journals of Congress, XII. 84, 92._ =7. Fugitive clause in the Constitution. [§ 15.]= =1787, Sept. 13.= Art. IV. § 2. "No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."--_Revised Statutes of the United States, I. 18._ =8. Clauses for returning fugitives in Indian treaties.= =1789, Jan. 7.= Treaty with the Wiandots, etc. Art. I. "The said nations agree to deliver up all the prisoners now in their hands (by what means soever they may have come into their possession)."--_Statutes at Large, VII. 28._ =1790-91. 1790, Apr. 7.= Treaty with the Creeks. Art. III. "The Creek Nation shall deliver ... all citizens of the United States, white inhabitants or negroes, who are now prisoners in any part of the said nation. And if any such prisoners or negroes should not be delivered on or before the first day of June next ensuing, the governor of Georgia may empower three persons to repair to the said nation, in order to claim and receive such prisoners and negroes."--_Statutes at Large, VII. 35._ =1791, July 2.= Treaty with the Cherokees. Art. III. All prisoners to be yielded up on both sides.--_Statutes at Large, VII. 36._ =9. First Fugitive Slave Act.= =1793, Feb. 12.= _An Act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters._