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any contract any such servant or slave, who is or may be entitled
to freedom as aforesaid, knowing that such servant or slave is
entitled to freedom as aforesaid, or if any person who shall be
procured, engaged or employed to purchase servants or slaves
for any other person not being resident as aforesaid, shall pur-
chase or receive on any contract any such servant or slave, en-
titled to freedom as aforesaid, knowing such servant or slave is
entitled to freedom as aforesaid, with an intention to transport such
servant or slave out of the State, he shall be liable to be indicted
in any court having criminal jurisdiction in this State, where he
may be found, and on conviction, shall be sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for not less than eighteen months nor more than two
years; and such slave or slaves shall be sold by order of the court
for the unexpired time of their servitude, for the use of the county
or city in which such conviction shall be had; Provided, neverthe-
less, that if any such person who shall have purchased or received
such servant or slave, without knowing of his title to freedom
after a term of years, or after any particular time, or upon any
contingency, shall, immediately after knowing thereof, give in-
formation on oath to one of the justices of the peace of the
county where the seller shall reside, or in the county where such
person may reside, or the sale may have been made, of such sale
and purchase, he shall not be liable to prosecution.

96. The provisions of the preceding section are hereby ex-
tended to all cases where any person being a resident of this
State shall purchase or receive, on any contract, any servant or
slave who is or may be entitled to freedom after a term of years,
or after'any particular time, or upon any contingency, knowing
that such servant or slave is so entitled to freedom, with an in-
tention to transport such servant or slave out of the State, and
to all cases where any person, being a resident of this State,
shall remove such servant or slave out of this State, and shall
sell the same, knowing the said servant or slave to be so entitled
to freedom.

97. If any person shall import or bring into this State any free
negro, or any person bound to service for a term of years only,
and shall sell or otherwise dispose of such free negro, or person
bound to serve for a term of years only, as a slave for life, or for
any longer time than by law such person may be bound to serve,
knowing such negro to be free or entitled to freedom at a certain
age, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of
eight hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt or in-