Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1840-08-01

tNOT VI luWS 10 sell WllItt UCD anu WnttG women
for sheriG's, clerks fees, and lawyers fees, and
fines imposed by eoults, who, from their poverty,
were so pool as to be unable 10 pay these costs
in money We have procured from the official
public records, for your examination and inspec-
lion, the following extracts from tie laws Of the
Territory of Indiana, in 1907, aud from the
journals OF the Senate Of the Legislature off
Ohio, in the year 1891, which are as follows:
Ertract from he Laws ofMc Indiana Territory,
printed at VincenLrs, by .Messrs Stout and
Snsoot, ~ sO7, and nor IN The Library lie
State Depu tment, Washmgton CITY.
CHAPTER W.
AN ACT RESPECTING GRIMES AND rUNIsnMENTa,
SEC. 30. When any person or persons shall,
on conviction Of any crime or breach Of any
penal law, be sentenced to pay fine or fncs with
or without the costs Of the prosecution, it shall
and may be lawful for the court before whom
such conviction shall be had to order the sheriff
to sell or hire the person or persons so convicted
to service to any person or persons who will pay
the said fine and costs for such term Of time as
the said court shalljudge reasonable.
And il any such person or persons, so sentenc-
ed and hired or sold, shall abscond from the
service Of his or her master or mistress before
the term OF such servitude Shall bsexpiIed, he or
she so absconding shall, on conviction before
Justice ofthe peace, be whipped with thirty
stripes, and shall, moreover, serve two days for
every one so lost
SIC. 81. The judges Of the several courts Of
record in this Territory shall give this act in
charge to the grand jury at each and every court
in whicIla glaus' jury shall be sworn.
JESSE b. THOMAS.
Speaker Of The House of Representatives..
b. CHAMBERS,
President Of he Council,
| Approved September II, 1907.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
From he journal Of The Senate Of he State Of
Ohio, first session Of The uneteenM CtaerGi
assembly, held il Tie Torn Of Columbus
The follo'etng is ertracted from, heproceedings
Of Ieetsday, January 30, 1921, 10 be found on
pages 3O4 and sos,
An act supplementary to the act for The pun
ishmcnt Of certain offences therein named being
under consideration
Mr. Fithiln then moved to strike out The 10Th
section OF said bill, as follows:
BE ii further enacted, That when any person
shau be imprisoned, either upon execution OF
otherwise for the non-payment Of fine, or costs,
or both, it shall be lawful for the sheriff Of the
county to sell out such persons as a servant to
any person within this Stale, who will pay the
whole amount due, for the shortest period Of SER
vice, OF which sale public notice shall be given at
lcast ten days; and upon such sach being
effected, the sheriff shall give to The purchaser a
certificate thereof, and deliver over the prisoner
10 him; from which time the relation between
such purchaser aud tho prisoner shall be that OF
master and servant, until the lime Of service eX-
lplrGs, and for injuries done by either, remedy
ei,nll b. Bad a.. the is he
provided by law in the case of master aud ap-
pfcntices; but nothing herein contained shall be
construed TO prevent persons beng discharged
from imprsonmen. according TO the provisions Of
the thirty-seyenih section of the act to which
this is supplementary, il it shall be considered
expedient to grant such discharge: Proraed,
That the count, IN pronouncng sentence upon any
person or persons convicted under this act, or the
act to which this is supplementary, may direct
such person or persons to be detained in prison
until the fine be paid, or the person or persons
otherwise disposed ofagrecaby 10 the provisions
CT this act:
Which motion was decided III the affirmative:
Yeas 30, nays IL.
And the yeas and nays being required, those
who voted in the!aflirmattve, were,
Messrs. Beasley, Brown, Fthian, Gass, lIea-
ton, Jennings, Lucas, Matthews, Mclaughlin,
/ McMillian, Newcom, Rohb, Russell, Scoiield,
Shelby, Spencer, Stone, Swearingen, Thompson,
and Womcldoh-20.
Those who voted in the negative, were,
i Messrs. Baldwin, Cole, Zoos, Foster, ITARRI-
SON, Mclean, Dzwalt, Pollock, Ruggles, Rob
erts, Wheeler, and Speaker-l2.
/ All the request Of the Hon. William Mont
gomery and Hon. M. T. Hawkins, we certify
the foregoing copy Of an extract fiom a law pass
ed in The Territorial Assembly Of Indiana, and
signed by William II. Harrison, as Governor Of
said Territory, and the extract from the journal
Of The State of Ohio, are truly copied.
CHARLES FISHER,
| ROBERT STRANGE,
D. BROWN,
CHARLES SHEPARD,
| HENRY w. COMMON,
JOHN HILL,
JAS J. MCKAY,
| J. A. BYNUM.
II the above record shows friend 10
/ The moor man. in the name Of all thnt ,s