Fugitives, evidence to convict, § 19; status on the high seas, § 24; penalty for harboring, § 30, A 80; pursuit interfered with, 41; length of journeys, § 67; disguised as whites, § 69; how conducted on the underground railroad, § 72; in loyal slave states, § 93; typical cases of, during the war, § 94; arrests of, by civil officers, advertisement of, § 96; entertainment of, A 6; against, A 11, A 12; resolution for the discharge of, C 32; bill to prevent return of, C 35; resolution against the return of, C 43, C 46; bill on the arrest of, by army and navy officers, C 48; act to prohibit return by the army, C 58; resolution on the return of, by the army and navy, bill on the return of, by the army, resolution demanding trial by jury for, C 61, C 66, C 77; bill for the emancipation of fugitives from disloyal masters, C 78. See also Runaways, Escapes; see Table of Contents. Fugitive Slaves, appeal for, § 19; status of question from 1823 to 1847, § 20, § 23; resolutions on, § 95; question discussed, § 95; arrest by army officers, § 95; resolutions on the return of, resolution on army orders on, C 28, C 36; resolution on, C 74; sources of information on, general histories of, E 1, E 3; secondary sources of information on, original sources of information on, autobiographies of, records of trials of, periodicals and newspapers upon, E 3, E 5, E 6, E 7, E 11; materials for study of legislation upon, E 12. See also Escapes, Fugitives, Runaways, and Table of Contents. Fugitive Slave Act, first (1793), § 16, § 17; first called for, § 17; necessity of the act, § 17; passed the Senate, passed the House, § 17; signed by the President, § 17; text, B 9; followed earlier examples, § 17, § 18; status of opinion on, § 17; remained inoperative, § 16, § 17; to enforce the, B 29. Fugitive Slave Act, second (1850), attempts to secure, § 20, § 21; secured, § 29; introduced by Mason, § 29, B 30; Webster proposes, B 30; substitute offered, B 30; passed Congress, § 29; necessity of, urged, § 31; arguments for, § 31; arguments against, § 32; provisions of, § 30; text of, B 31; unpopularity of, § 51; no moral foundation, § 51; declared unconstitutional, § 85; non-execution of, § 85; resolution to amend, C 45.