Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-03-10

be brought or introduced into the city for sale
or hire, in the public and most frequented pla
ces thereof, and to make such regulations in
regard to their exposure, and the parts of the
city where the said slaves shall be lodged,
Kept and sold, as may to the said council seem
meet and proper, to maintain tranquility and
good order in the city
Sect 10. BE at further enacted, That in
all prosecutions that shall or may take place
under this act, it shall not be incumbent on the
prosecutor to prove the age Of the slave or
slaves alleged to have been imported into the
state, in violation of the provisions hereof,
but that the burthen ofproving the age of said
slave or slaves, shall be on the individual or
individuals accused: Provided, however, that
certificate of such age. signed, sworn to, au-
thentIcated and deposited in the manner pro-
vided by the first section Of this act, shall be
received as full proof of such age.
Sec. IL. Re II further enacted, That no
slave introduced into this state, after the first
OF April eighteen hundred and twenty nine,
shall be the subject of a mortgage or lien, I'M
less the owner thereof shall have complied.
with the provisions of this act, as persons in
PRODUCING Tor sale, emigrating to the state, or
citizens bringing them IL Tor their own use
Sec, l2. BE HJiutAer enacted, That no
slave introduced in vic alton Of the prohibito-
~ clauses of this act, shall be subject to Judi
clal sale. within two years after the time of
introducing them except, in payment ofdebts
bona tide contracted after the passage of this
act, and without any view to eIude or evade
the provisions thereof, provided, however,
that no debtor shall bring his slave or slaves
from another state into this to avoid the pay
ment of his debts, for the period in which
the judicial sale of them is prohibited under
the aforesaid restriction, shall lie permitted to
avail himself of such prohibition, if the credi-
tor establish the bona .jfde existence of his
debt, and that it was not contracted with
view to elude the true intent and meaning of
this act, provided that in all suits brought by
a ccreditor against person having introduced
slaves from another state, the plaintiff shall
give notice. Of the tendency of such suit to
the district attorney, whose duty it shall be
to superintend, in the name of the state, the
whole of the proceedings and guard against
the violation ofthe spirit of this act
Sec. Is. Be it, further enacted, That from
and after the promul cation Of this act, it shall
be unlawful for any person, whether citizen
of this state or not, to introduce for any pur-
pose or under any preteXt whatever any slave
or slaves who shall have been accused of any
conspiracy or Instruction. or who had resided
in any county any state or territory of the
United States, during the time Of any conspi
racy or Instruction in such county, and that
any person who shall be convicted of having
introduced any slave Or slaves accused or resi-
less than one thousand dollars nor more than
five thousand dollars, and shall suffer lmprls-
onment for period not less than one nor
more than five years; provided that when
more than two years shall have elapsed from
the time when the said conspiracy or insur-
rection shall have taken place, the prohibition
enacted ~ the present section shall not extend
to slaves who may have been residing IN the
said county at the time when said conspiracy
or instruction took place and were neither ell
gagged or accused Of having had any agency
therein
Sec. IA. BE ii further enacted, That it
shall be lawful to prosecute to conviction and
punishment any person accused under the pro-
visions of this act, at any time within three
wears after the commission OF the offence, the
limitation of the thirty seventh section OF an
act for the punishment Of crimes and INSIDE
meanors, approved May fourth, eighteen hum
dred and five, or any other act or part OF any
act to the contrary notwithstanding
Sect. Is. BE ii. /urther enacted, 1 hat no
slave, child or children, ten years OF age, or
under. shall be introduced into this state, I'M
accompanied by his, her, or their mother, If
living, under the penalty prescribed IN the
tenth section Of this act; and that in all trials
for violation ofthis section, thai the burthen
Of proving the age of such child or children
and that his. her, or their mother was dead at
the time of Introducing them, shall be on the
accused. I'M e
Sect. l6. BE IL further enacted, That II
any person or persons shall sell the mother OF
any Slave child or children under the age OF
ten wears, separate from said child or chill
dren, or shall, the mother living sell any
slave child or children of ten years OF age or
under. seperate from said mother, shall incur
the penaty of the sixth section of this act.