The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-02-16
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has been introduced into the House of
Representative by DR.. EDWARDS:
A BILL 10 prohibit the introduction Of
slaves into The District ofColumbia as
merchandise, or for sale or hire.
Beat enacted by The Senate and House
of Representative IF tie United States in
american Congress assembled, That the
business of introducing or importing
slaves into the District of Columbia as
merchandise. or for sale or hire, be and
the same is hereby prohibited. ''' '' .'
SEC. 2, And be ii further enacted. IF
any person shall hereafter bring or i'm.
port any slave OF slaves into the District
aforesaid as merchandise. or for the pur-
pose of selling or hiring such slave or
slaves, or shall he accessory thereto, the
person or persons so offending shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof shall be fined in the
sum of FIVE hundred dollars. and be i'm
prlsoned a term not less than one, nor
more than six months, at the discretion of
the court, for each and every slave by him
brought into the District oresad as mer-
chandlse, or for sale or hire. -r .L-
SEC.'3 And be II further enacted. That
all contracts made or bargains entered in
to, and all agreements, whether verbal or
in writing, when the consideration or any
part thereof has been for a slave or slaves
introduced or imported into the District
aforesaid as merchandise. or for sale or
hire, shall be absolutely null and void
SEC a. and be IL further enacted,
Whenever any citizen of the District a.
foresaid, or other person. shall bring any
slave or slaves into The District aforesaid,
he, she, or they shall, within forty eight
hours next after his or their entry into The
District, go betnre the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court ofthe county of Washington,
in the District of Columbia, and take an
oath that said slave or slaves have
not been brought into this District as
merchandise, or for sale or hire. but that
they were brought for his or their proper
use, and for no other purposes whatever,
aud it shall be the duty of the clerk Of
said court to give the person making oath
certificate, under his official seal. that
said oath has been taken and duly recor-
ded in his office; and it is hereby made
the duty Of said clerk to administer said
oath, and TO keep true and perfeci rec.
ord thereof in his office; and any person
failing to take such oath and certificate
thereof, and shall be found to have enter
ed this District with slave or slaves, oI
to have received such slaves from any 9th.
er person who has entered with them
shall be arrested by the Marshal Of the
District, or any of his deputies, or any
constable in said District, to whom a
knowledge ofth facts may come; and the
person SO arrested shall be Immediately
taken before some Judge or Justice of the
District, whose duty it shall be to recog
nize said person for his appearance at the
next regular term of the Criminal Court
oftb county of Washington, in the DIS
trict of Columbia, in the sum of five hun
dred dollars for each slave so found in hi:
possession; and on failure of such person
to enterinlo such recognizance. it shal
be the duty of such judge or justice to
commit him to Jail, unless he is then will
ling to take The oath above prescribed, it
which case it shall he administered accor
ding to the provisions of this act: PrOUi
ded al'0ays. That nothing in this section
shall apply to any person or persons Wis
iting or passing through this District with
his, her, or their carriage drivers, walters
or other body-servants. male or female
Provided further, That nothing in thi,
act shall be so construed as to Sprevent
any person or persons, in removing t,
said District, from bringing with then
their slave or slaves: AndprOoided further
That nothing in this act be so construct
as to prevent persons residing within thi
District from introducing any slave o
slaves obtained by marriage, hequest, %
inheritance: And prOpided, aisO, Tha
nothing in this act shall prevent bringing
slaves into the District, as now author
lied, for hire for term not exceeding
IW6lN6 HlDHlHS.
SEC. 5. And be At further pnactcd, Tha
any person or persons bringing wilhiI
this District, under any of the provision
of this act, any slave or slaves, shall with
in thirty days of their introduction, fill
in the clerks office ofthe county Of Wash
ing,on a record of the names. sex, ant
age of said slaves; and an omission to d'
so shall be construed into an intention t,
have introduced such slave or slaves 70
sale.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, Tha
it shall be the duty Of the Secretary Il
State of the United States. immediatel
after The passage ofthis act, to cause it
publication in at least four nemspapersi i
each slave State of the Union, and in a
least three of the newspapers ofthis Dis
trict, for two successive months, and thi
act shall not take effect until the first da
of August, 1S49.
A MUTlNY DEFEATED ny A LADY,
the London Times correspondence frof
Egypt. we find the following paragraph
! "A vessel bound for Alden, with coa
having lost her master by death, when I
t bout twelve days sail from her destini
tion, the crew conspired to take possess
3 ion and dispose other on the coast of Ar;
t bia. However The Captains daughtt
D Miss Arnold, a young woman of the ag
: of 90, was on board, and having receive
some intimation Of the piratical inte