The only act of Arkansas concerning importation was passed in 1838 and put in force by proclamation of the Governor March 20, 1839. It was never repealed so far as we could find, and is as follows: "No person shall knowingly bring or cause to be brought into this State, or hold, purchase, hire, sell, or otherwise dispose of within the same; first, any slave who may have committed in any other State, territory or district within the United States, or any foreign country, any offense, which, if committed within the State, would, according to the laws thereof, be felony or infamous crime; or second, any slave who shall have been convicted in this State, of any felony or infamous crime, and ordered to be taken or removed out of this State, according to the laws thereof; or third, any slave who shall have actually been removed out of this State after a conviction of felony or other infamous crime, although no order of removal shall have been made; or fourth, any person or the descendant of any person, who shall have been imported into the United States, or any of the territories thereof in contravention of the laws of the United States, and held as a slave."[394] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 301: Hening: Statutes at Large, Vol. IX., p. 471.] [Footnote 302: Hening: Vol. IX., p. 471. (a) Ibid., Vol. XII., p. 182.] [Footnote 303: Shepherd: Statutes at Large, of Va., Vol. II., p. 19.] [Footnote 304: Shepherd: Statutes at Large, Vol. III., p. 251.] [Footnote 305: Acts of 1810-1811, p. 15, C. 14.] [Footnote 306: Acts of the General Assembly of Va., 1812-13, p. 26. C. 28.] [Footnote 307: Ibid., 1818-19, p. 37, C. 26.] [Footnote 308: Faust: Acts of General Assembly of S.C. From 1791 to 1794, Vol. I., p. 215. McCord, Statutes at Large of S.C., Vol. VII., p. 431.] [Footnote 309: McCord: Vol. VII., p. 433.] [Footnote 310: Ibid.: p. 434 (a) p. 435.] [Footnote 311: Ibid.: pp. 436-439.] [Footnote 312: Ibid., p. 444.] [Footnote 313: McCord: Stat. at Large of S.C., Vol. VII., p. 447.] [Footnote 314: Ibid., p. 449.] [Footnote 315: Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of S.C., 1816, p. 22.] [Footnote 316: Acts of S.C., 1817, p. 17.] [Footnote 317: Laws of South Carolina, 1818, p. 57.] [Footnote 318: Ibid., 1823, p. 61.] [Footnote 319: Ibid., 1835, p. 37.] [Footnote 320: Ibid., 1848, Dec. 19, 1848.] [Footnote 321: Laws of S.C., 1848, Dec. 19, 1848.] [Footnote 322: Revised Statutes, by Authority of the General Assembly, 1836-7, Vol. II, p. 575. Chap. III., Sec. 19. We could not find that it was ever repealed. It is to be found in the Revised Code of North Carolina, 1854. As this was taken from the Revised Statutes of 1836-7, it is natural to find the penalty expressed in dollars, rather than in pounds.] [Footnote 323: Hayward: A Manual of the Laws of N.C., to 1817 inclusive, p. 533. Must have been repealed between 1817 and 1819, as it is not in the Revised Statutes of 1819.] [Footnote 324: Hurd: Law of Freedom and Bondage, Vol. II, p. 84.]