History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2: Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as CitizensWilliams, George Washington
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History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2: Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
Williams, George Washington
African Americans -- History; Liberia; Sierra Leone
"Sec. 3. If any negro or mulatto removed into this territory as
aforesaid shall refuse to serve his or her owner as aforesaid, it
shall and may be lawful for such person, within sixty days
thereafter, to remove the said negro or mulatto to any place [to]
which by the laws of the United States or territory from whence
such owner or possessor may [have come] or shall be authorized to
remove the same. (As quoted in Phoebe v. Jay, Breese, Ill. R.,
208.)
"Sec. 4. An owner failing to act as required in the preceding
sections should forfeit all claim and right to the service of
such negro or mulatto.
"Sec. 5. Declares that any person removing into this territory
and being the owner or possessor of any negro or mulatto as
aforesaid, under the age of fifteen years, or if any person shall
hereafter acquire a property in any negro or mulatto under the
age aforesaid, and who shall bring them into this territory, it
shall and may be lawful for such person, owner, or possessor to
hold the said negro to service or labor--the males until they
arrive at the age of thirty-five, and females until they arrive
at the age of thirty-two years.
"Sec. 6. Provides that any person removing any negro or mulatto
into this territory under the authority of the preceding
sections, it shall be incumbent on such person, within thirty
days thereafter, to register the name and age of such negro or
mulatto with the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the
proper county.
"Sec. 7. Requires new registry on removal to another county."
"Secs. 8, 9. Penalties by fine for breach of this act.
"Sec. 10. Clerk to take security that negro be not chargeable
when his term expires.
"Sec. 12. Fees.
"Sec. 13. That the children born in said territory of a parent of
color owning service or labor, by _indenture_ according to law,
should serve the master or mistress of such parent--the males
until the age of thirty, and the females until the age of
twenty-eight years. (As quoted in Boon v. Juliet, 1836, 1,
Scammon, 258.)
"Sec. 14. That an act respecting apprentices misused by their
master or mistress should apply to such children. (See the
statute cited in Rankin v. Lydia, 2, A. K. Marshall's Ky., 467;
and in Jarrot v. Jarrot, 2, Gilman, 19.) This act was repealed in
1810."[48]
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