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INDEX TO THE PUBLIC LAWS.
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Chap.
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not by the children, if the person selected
be approved by the court,
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FREE
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NEGROES AND MULATTOES— See Free
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Negroes and Slaves.
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FREE
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NEGROES AND SLAVES— Any citizen of
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this State, or any person or persons who
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reside or may have resided out of this
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State, and who may remove or have remov-
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ed into the same with a bona fide intention
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of becoming a citizen, may introduce any
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negro slave or slaves for life, from any
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State, if the person so removing shall with-
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in 30 days after the removal make affidavit
before some justice of the county into which
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he or she may remove, and have same filed,
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&c. of his or her intention to become a citi-
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zen, &c. and that the person so introducing
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such slave, &c. shall within the time afore-
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said, file with the clerk a list, &c. of said
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slaves, &c. so removed, staling the ages,
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&c. with affidavit, that it is a true list, &c.
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and that he hath not removed the same for
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sale, and that they are slaves for life, and
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that the sum of $15 for each, between the
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age of 42 and 45 years, and the sum of $5
for each above the age of 45, and under
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12 years, be paid to the cleric, &c.
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Any thing in any previous act contrary
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to or inconsistent with this, repealed.
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No free negro or mulatto belonging to or
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residing in any other State, to come into
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this State under penalty of $200 for first
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offence; not to come in a second time
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where he or she has been arrested under
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the act, under penalty of $500, &c. one
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half to informer, the other half to sheriff for
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colonization society, to be recovered on
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complaint and conviction before county
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court, or during recess the orphans' court,
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in which arrested, &c.
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In case of refusal to pay, to be commit-
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ted to jail, &c. and sold, &c. upon 10 days
notice, to serve as a slave; sheriff after de-
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ducting prison charges and commission of
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ten per cent, to pay one half of nett pro-
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ceeds to informer, the balance to pay over
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