Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-03-05

slaves shall be publicly sold, after notice OF
twenty days, by the sheriff OF the parish
where such forfeiture may have been pro-
nounced, one fourth of the nett proceeds OF
which shall be to the use of the informer, the
remainder to the use of the state.
| Sec Z. Belt further enacted, That II any
person or persons shall purchase any slave or
slaves introduced or brought into this state Tor
sale or hire, without acquiring title to the
said slave or slaves, in the form and manner
provided by the third and fifth sections OF this
act, such person or persons shall, on eonvic-
ton thereof suffer fine of not less than two nor
more than five hundred dollars, and moreover
forfeit the slave or slaves thus purchased,
which slaves and the proceeds of them shall
be disposed of in the manner pointed out in
the preceding section.
Sec. 8. Be il further en9cied, That ifany
notary public or parish Judge in this state,
shall pass or permit to be executed before him,
any act of sale or contract Of hire of any slave
or slaves introduced or brought into this state,
for sale or hire, without complying in every
particular with the requisites and formalltles
provided for by the third and fifth sections of
this act, the said notary or parish judge shall,
upon conviction thereof, suffena fine of five
hundred dollars, and shall moreover be liable
to removal from office.
Sect 9. Be 1t further enacted, That it
shall be the duty Of the city council of New
Orleans, to pass any ordinance or ordinances
to prevent the exposition of slaves that may
be brought or introduced into the city for sale
or hire, in the public and most trequcnted 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 ii 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 ofsthe provisions hereof,
but that the burthen fproving the age of said
slave or slaves, shall be on the individual or
individuals accused: Provided, however, that
a certificate of such age, signed, sworn to, au-
thenticated and deposited in the manner pro-
vded by the first section Of this act, shall be
received as full proof Of such age.
Sec. IL. BE IL further enacted, That no
slave introduced into this state, after the first
of April eighteen hundred and twenty nine,
shall be the subject of mortgage or lien, I'M
less the owner thereof shall have complied
with the provisions of this act, as persons in
PRODUCING for sale, emigrating to the state, or
citizens bringing them i'll for their own USE
Sec. l2. BE 1t further enacted, That 10
slave introduced in violation of the prohibito
ry clauses of this act, shall be subject to judi
cial sale, within two years after the time Of
introducing them except, in payment of debts
bona ,fde contracted after the passage of this
act, and without any view to elude 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 be permitted to
avail himself of such prohibition, if the credi-
tor establish the bona .fde existence Of his
debt, and that it was not contracted with a
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 HOtiCC VI thO PSieSiey Va S"Si 'u'e W
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. l3. Be at. further enacted, That from
and after the PRONUNCIATION 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 of any state or territory of the
United States, during the time Of any conspi-
racy or insurrection in such county, and that
any person who shall be convicted of having
introduced any slave or slaves accused or resi-
dent as aforesaid, shall be fined in sum not
less than one thousand dollars nor more than
five thousand dollars, and shall suffer impris-
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- |