222 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

the punishment; and any person so offending, shall for every such
offence forfeit such slave. And any slave so brought into this
State, shall bo taken and confined in jail by the sheriff of the
county or city where the offence is committed; which sheriff
shall receive ten dollars for every such slave so brought into this
State and forfeited as aforesaid, to be recovered in an action of
debt in his own name before any justice of the peace, as small
debts are recovered, from the person so offending. Moreover, the
said sheriff shall receive five dollars for such slave actually con-
fined by him in jail, and the usual prison fees allowed by law;
and any person so offending under this and the preceding sec-
tion, shall be punished by indictment in the court of the county
or city where the offence shall be committed, and upon convic-
tion thereof the said court shall direct said sheriff, after ten days'
notice given by advertisement to be set up at the court house
door, to sell any such slave to some person with a condition that
such slave shall be removed beyond the limits of "this State to
reside, and the said sheriff shall report any sale made by him to
the court directing the sale, and after deducting five dollars and
prison fees for each slave so sold, shall pay over the balance on
the said sale to the Treasurer.

72. Any person bringing into this State any negro slave for
life, or for a term of years, from any State, district or territory
of the United States, for the purpose of sale beyond the limits
of this State, and who shall sell the said slave to be transported
beyond the limits of this State, shall, upon indictment and con-
viction, be subject to a fine of not less than two hundred nor more
than five hundred dollars for each slave so introduced.

INCENDIARY AND OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS.

73. If any person shall knowingly circulate, or in any way
knowingly assist in circulating among the inhabitants of this
State, any pictorial representation, or any pamphlet, newspaper,
handbill, or other paper, printed or written, of an inflammatory
character, having a tendency to create discontent among and stir
up to insurrection the negroes of this State, he shall be guilty of
felony, and shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less
than ten nor more than twenty years.

74. No citizen of this State, shall knowingly make, print or
engrave, within this State, any pictorial representation, or write
or print, or aid in the writing or printing, any pamphlet, news-