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for crime, is prohibited while such territory shall remain under
the territorial government. In all the territory South of said
line of latitude slavery of the African race is hereby recogniz-
ed as existing, and shall not be interfered with by Congress
but shall be protected as property by all the departments of
the territorial government during its continuance; and when
any territory, North or South of said line, within such boun-
daries as Congress may prescribe, shall contain the popula-
tion requisite for a member of Congress, according to the
Federal ratio of representation of the people of the United
States, it shall, if its form of government be republican, be
admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the origi-
nal States, with or without slavery, as the constitution of
such new States may provide.

ART. 2. Congress shall have no power to abolish slavery
in places under its exclusive jurisdiction, and situate within
the limits of States that permit the holding of slaves.

ART. 3. Congress shall have no power to abolish slavery
within the District of Columbia so long as it exists in the ad-
joining States of Virginia and Maryland, or either, nor
without the consent of the inhabitants, nor without just com-
pensation first made to such owners of slaves as do not con-
sent to such abolishment. Nor shall Congress at any time
prohibit officers of the Federal Government or members of
Congress, whose duties require them to be in said district,
from bringing with them their slaves and holding them as
such during the time their duties may require them to re-
main there, and afterwards taking them from the District.

ART. 4. Congress shall have no power to prohibit or hin-
der the transportation of slaves from one State to another, or
to a territory in which slaves are by law permitted to be
held, whether that transportation be by land, navigable
rivers, or by sea.

ART. 5. That in addition to the provisions of the third
paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the
Constitution of the United States, Congress shall have power
to provide, that the United States shall pay the owner who
shall apply for it, the full value of his fugitive slave, in all
cases when the marshal, or other officer, whose, duty it was
to arrest said fugitive, was prevented from so doing by vio-
lence or intimidation, or when after arrest, said fugitive was
rescued by force, and the owner thereby prevented and ob-
structed in the pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of his
fugitive slave, under the said clause of the Constitution and
the laws made in pursuance thereof. And in all such cases,
when the United States shall pay for such fugitives, they
shall have the right, in their own name, to sue the county,
city, or town, in which said violence, intimidation, or rescue
was committed, and to recover from it, with interest and