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or their increase, unless they have resided in the state three years

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next preceding such sale, excepting dispositions by will, by law for

debts, or in consequence of intestacy — 1796, ch. 67, sec. 3, .

345

Any citizen of this state, who may acquire by marriage, bequest, or in

course of distribution, any slave for life, or any person residing out

of the state, and who shall remove into the state with a bona fide

intention of becoming thereof a citizen, may introduce into the

state any slave owned or so acquired by them — 1833, ch. 87,*

1112

Any citizen of this state, or any person who resides or may have re-

sided out of this state, or who may remove into the same with a

bona fide intention of becoming a citizen thereof, to introduce into

this state any negro slave for life, from any part of the U. States,

upon his making oath that he intends to become a citizen, and that

the negroes are not brought in for sale, and filing a list of the ne-

groes with the clerk, and paying the clerk for the use of coloniza-

tion society a sum graduated according to age — 1839, ch. 155,

2325

No slave manumitted agreeably to the laws of this state since the act

of April, 1783) ch. 23, or who may be manumitted under this act,

shall vote at elections, or be elected or appointed to any office of

profit or trust, or give evidence against any white person, or for the

manumission of any slave petitioning for freedom — 1796, ch. 67,

sec. 5, ...........

335

Persons bound to serve for a term of years shall not, when brought

from another slate into this, be considered as slaves for life, but

shall serve their time out, and no longer — 1796, ch. 67, sec. 6,

335

Where negroes have been carried out of the state by executors, guar-

dians, &.c. during the infancy or without the consent of the owners,

they may be brought back, and held as slaves — 1796, ch. 67, sec. 7,

336

Declared lawful for citizens to hire, remove, or work their slaves, in

any adjoining county of any other state, and to bring them back as

often as the owners may think proper, where the laws of the

other state do not prohibit the same, without delivering a list to be

recorded in the clerk's office as heretofore — 1812, ch. 76, sec 1, .

608

Provided that they shall not be kept out of the state longer than twelve

months at any one time — 1812, ch. 76, sec. 1, . .

608

A like provision in favour of citizens of any other state owning slaves

in any county adjoining this state — 1812, ch. 76, sec. 2,

608

Slaves hired out of this state as above to be retained as slaves, and not

entitled to freedom by such removal — 1812, ch. 76, sec. 1, .

608

Mode of manumitting slaves by will — 1796, ch. 67, sec. 13,

337

Persons bringing into this state negroes, &c. so entitled to freedom at

a certain age, and selling them, &c. as above, forfeit the same sum,

and on non-payment within the said time, may be adjudged to

serve on the roads in the same manner — 1796, ch. 67, sec. 16,

337

Owners of slaves not to suffer them to depart from their plantations

and remain at large, becoming burthensome to the neighbourhoods

—1796, ch. 67, sec. 17, ........

338

* Consult the notes to this section.