Sec. 7. Every person who shall hold, or attempt to hold, in this State, in slavery, or as a slave, any person mentioned as a slave in the sixth section of this act, or any free person, in any form, or for any time, however short, under pretence that such person is or has been a slave, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the State Prison for a term not less than one year, nor more than fifteen years, and be fined not exceeding two thousand dollars. Sec. 8. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 9. This Act shall take effect from its passage. Approved November 25, 1858. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act, by Lydia Maria Child