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man raised his hoe and struck him on the
head. Here the matter ended Tor the lime.
Powell was arrested, tried before a justice,
and fined one dollar for an assault and Bate
nv. Subsequently the man has died, and
Mr.. Powell has been committed.
THE PROOF!-READ 1T FREEMEN!.
House OF REPRESENTATIVES.,
June 8. 1910
To William White and Others. of the eighth
Congressional District; and Gideon M.
Green and Others. of the 9Th Congressional
District of North Carolina.
GEvTLEMEN:-We avail ourselves of this
mode Of answering your numerous and press
ing inquiries as to facts and records relative
to the acts and votes of the bank federal
abolition whig candidate for the Presidency,
Gen. William H. Harrison, Of Hamilton coun-
ty, Ohio, in favor Of laws to sell white men
and white women for sheriffs' fees, clerks fees,
and lawyers fees, and fines imposed by courts.
who from their poverty, were so poor as to
be unable to pay these costs in money. We
have procured from the official public records,
for your examination and inspection, the fol-
lowing extracts from the laws of the Terri
tory Of Indiana, in 1907, and from the Jour.
nails Of the Senate Of the Legislature Of
Ohio, in the year 1921, which are as follows:
Extract from the Laus of Indiana Terri.
tory, printed at Tincennes, by Messrs. Stout
and Smoot, in 1907, and noU ia the Liberia.
ry Of the Slate Department, Washington
City.
CHAPTER vi.
An act rspecting crimes and punishment.
sSEc. 80. When any person or persons.
shall on conviction Of AMI crime, or breach
of any penal law, be sentenced TO pay a fine
or fines, with or without the costs of prose-
~cution, il shall and may be lawful for the
court before whom such conviction shall be
had, to order the Sheriff 10 sell or hire the
person or persons so conricted. 10 service 10
any person or persons who uiH pay the sid
fine and costs for such term of time as the
Court piH think reasonable.
And If such person or persons. S, senten-
ced and hired or sold, shall abscond from the
service OF his or her master or mistress, be-
fore The term of such service shall be expi-
red, he or she so a%bsconding. shall on c%onvic-
ton before a Justice of the peace, be
WHIPPED WITH THRTY.NLSE
STRP ES! and shalt moreover serve two
DAYS for every one so lost.
"SEc. 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 at which a grand jury shall he sworn.
JESSE B. THOMAS.
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
B. CHAMBERS,
President of the Council.
Approved-Sept. n. 1907.
WIN. HENRY HARRISON
From the journal of the Senate of the Slate
of Ohio, LIST session of the 18Th General
Assembly, held in the tour of Columbus.-
The folowing is ertracted from the pro-
ceedings Of Tuesday. January 80, 1921,
to Be found on pages 3o4 and 3o5:
An act supplementary to an act for the
punishment of certain offences therein named
being under consideration
Mr.. Fithian then moved to strike out the
18th section of said bill, as follows:
Be 1t further enacted. That when any
person shall be imprisoned, either upon ex-
ecution or otherwise, for the non payment
of a fine or costs, or both, it shall be lawful
for the sheriff Of the county to sell out such
person as a servant to any person within
this State, who will pay the whole amount
due, for the shortest period oil service, Of
which sale public notice shall be given at
least ten days; and upon such sale being
effected, the sheriff shall give 10 the purcha.
ser a certificate thereof, and deliver over
the prisoner to him; from which time the
relation between such purchaser and the
prisoner shall be that Of master and servant,
until the time Of service expires, and for in.
juries done by either, remedy shall be had in
the same manner as is or may be provided
by law in the case Of master and apprenti.
ces; but nothing herein contained shall be
construed to prevent persons being dis
charged from Imprisonment according to the
provisions Of the 37th section of the act to
which this is supplementary, if il shall be
considered expedient to grant such dis.
charge: Prouded, That the court in pro-
nouncing sentence upon any person or per.
sons convicted under this act, or the act TO
which this is supplementary, NAV direct
such person or persons to be detained in pris-
on until the fine be paid, or the person or
persons otherwise disposed of agreeably to
the provisions of this act: