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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 16,623.
    UNITED STATES v. VINSENT.
    [5 Cranch, C. C. 38.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1836.
    Slavery—Certificate of Freedom.
    A certificate of freedom is not such a “pass” ns is contemplated by tbe 19th section of the Maryland act of 1796 (chapter 67).
    Indictment for giving a pass to one of Mr. Custiss’s slaves, “being a paper writing, purporting to be a certificate from tbe president of tbe board of aldermen, and acting mayor of tbe city of New York, under seal of tbe mayoralty of said city of New York, that the bearer thereof, Alexander Yinsent, was a free person.”
   THE COURT

(nem. con.) was of opinion that tbe paper was not such a “pass” as is contemplated by the 19th section of tbe Maryland statute, upon which tbe indictment was founded.