Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-06-26

shall be by the said clerk notified to tie
justices OF the inferior court of such
county, and shall be tried and determin-
ed in the manner hereinafter pointed
out; and the said clerk shall grant or
withhold such certificate, according to
the determination thereof; provided that
the expense of such publication, shall
be betrayed out of the county funds,
where the moiety of the several penal
ties prescribed by this act is appropri-
ated to the county, and out of the funds
of the several corporate towns, where
such moiety is appropriated to such
corporations.
6. Be HJurther enacted, That all and
every person of color INDIANS iii amity
with this state, or regularly articled sea
men, or apprentices arriving in any ship
or vessel, excepted) who shall, after the
first Monday in May next, be found with
in the limits of this state, whose names
shall not be enrolled in the book of
registry, described in the preceding
section, or having been enrolled, who
shall have been refused certificates in
the manner therein described, and who
shall be working at large, enjoying the
profits of his or her labor, and no. in the
employment of master or owner or of
some white person, by and in virtue of
an actual and bona fide contract, with
the master or owner of such peison Of
color, securing to such master or owner
the profits arising from the labor Of such
person of color, shall be deemed, held
and taken to be slaves, and may be ar
rested by warrant under the hand Of any
magistrate Of this state, and such pro-
ceedings being had as are hereinafter
provided shall be sold by public outcry
as slaves, and the proceeds of such sales
shall be appropriated in the manner spe-
CITED in the first section of this act.
7. Be ii further enacted, That all
registered free persons of color, between
the ages of fifteen and sixty years, shall
be liable to do public work, in the coun-
ties or corporate towns in which they
may reside, under such regulations and
on pain of such penalties for non-com-
pliance, as the justices of the inferior
courts of the several counties, and the
mayor and aldermen, or intendant and
| wardens, or commissioners OF such cor
porate towns, shall prescribe; and it shall
be the duty of such justices of the inferi-
or court, and of such mayor and alder
men, intendant and wardens, or commits
sioners, to call out such free persons of
color, and employ them in public work,
within their respective Jurisdictions, for
term not exceeding twenty days in one
year.
8. Be ii further enacted, That no
| free person of color within this state
Undians in amity with this state except
ed) shall be permitted to purchase or
| acquire real estate, or any slave or
slaves, eitherb direct conveyance to
such free person of color Of the legal
title Of such real estate, or slave or
slaves, or by conveyance to any white
person rpersons of such legal title, re-
serving to such free person of color,
the beneficial interest therein, by any
trust, either written or parol, by any
will, testament, or deed, or by any con-
tract, agreement, or stipulation, either
written or parol, and securing, or at
tempting to secure, to such free person
of color, the legal title, or equitable or
beneficial interest therein, but all and
singular such real estate, and each and
every such slave or slaves, shall be
deemed and held to be wholly forfeited,
and the escheaters in the several coun-
ties in this state, shall be and they are
hereby required to proceed against such
properly, in the manner pointed out by
the several acts to regulate escheats in
this state; and the proceeds of such for
feited property shall after deducting ten
per centum OH the gross amount thereof
which shall be paid to the person giving
information of the same to the escheater,
or to the escheater himself, if he shall
discover the same, and the costs of the
inquisition be appropriated one half to
the use of the county, except in the
county of Chatham in which such
moicty shall be paid to the corporation
Of the city Of Savannah, and the other
moicty shall be paid into the treasury OF
the state; and all and every person or
persons who shall be concerned i'll cover
ing or protecting such property, SO as
to secure the legal or equitable title
therein to such free person or persons of
colour, contrary to the true intent and
meaning of this act, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding one thousand dol
lars, which shall be sued for and re-
covered in the manner hel einafter point
ed out, and shall be appropriated in the