The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-04-04
CONSTITUTION OF y. STATES.

es and dimmunities Of citizens inlthe seye.
raj Stntes.
2. A person charged in any State with
treason, felony, or other crime, who shall
flee from justice, and DO found in another
State, shall, on demand Of the executive
authority of the State from which he fled,
be delivered up 10 be removed to the State
having jurisdiction Of the crimc.
3. No person held to service or labor in
one State, under the laws thereof, escap
ing into another, shnll, in consequence of
any law or regulation therein, be dis.
charged from such service or labor, but
shall be delivered up on claim of The party
to whom such service or labor may be
due. s.,
Laws OF THE UNITED STATES. ~
An Act respecting fugiiives from just
ice, and persons escnping from the SER
vice oftl,eir masters.
SECTION 1. Be il enacted, &c. That
whenever the executive authority OF any
Statc in the Union, or Of either of the
Territories northwest or south of The river
Ohio, shall demand any person us fugi-
tive from Justice, Of the executive authori-
ty of any such State or Territory to which
such person shull have fled, and shall,
moreover, produce the copy Of on intlict-
ment found, or an affidavit made, before
q magistrate Of any State or Territory as
aforesaid charging the person SO demand
ed with having committed treason felony,
or other crime, certified as authentic by
the Governor or Chief Magistrate ofthe
State or Territory from whence the per-
son SO charged fled, 10 cause him or her
TO be arrested and secured and notice OF
the arrest to be given 10 the executive au-
thority making such demand, or to the
agent Of such authority appointed to re.
ceive the fugitive, and 10 cause tho fugi.
gitivc to he delivered to such agent when
he shall appear: But if no such agent
shall appear within six months from The
time of the arrest, the prisoner may be
discharged. And all costs or expenses
incurred in the experimenting, securing,
and transmitting, such fugitive 10 the State
or Territory making such demand, shull
be paid by such Stute or Territory.
SEC. 2. That any agent, appointed as
aforesaid, who shall receive the fugitive
into his custody, shall be empowered 10
transport him or her to the Sn,c or Terri
| tory from which he or she have fled. And
if any person or persons shall, by
force, set at liberty, or rescue the fu-
gi,ivc from such agent while transporting,
as aforesaid, the person or persons SO off.
ending shall, on conviction, be fined not
exceeding five hundred dollars, and be
imprisoned not exceeding one year.
SEC. g. That when person held 10 Ia
hor in any of the United States, or in eth.
Of the Territories northwest or south OF
the river Ohio, under tho laws thereof
shall escape into any other Of the said
Slatesor Territory. the person to whom
such labor or service may be due, his
agent or attorney, is hereby cmpoweredlo to
seize or arrest such fugitive from labor,
nnd TO take him or her before any judge OF
the circuit or district courts Of the United
Suites, residing or being within the State,
or before any magistrate Of county, city,
: or town corporate. wherein such seizure
or urres, shall be made and upon proof TO
the satisfaction Of such Judge or magis-
trnte, either by oral testimony or affidavit
taken before and certified by magistrate
Of any such State or Territory, that the
| person so arrested doth under The laws Of
the State or Territory from which no or
she fled, owe service or labor 10 the per.
son claiming him or her, it shall be the
duty of such judge or magistrate 10 give a
certificate thereof TO such claimant his
agent or attorney which shall be suliicien,
warrant for removing the said fugitive
| from labor to the Slate or Territory from
which he or she is fled.
SEC. 4. That any person who shall
knowingly and willingly obstruct or hin
der such claimant, his agent or attorney in
SO seizing or nrresting such fugitive from
labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from
such claimant, his agcn, or attorney, when
so arrested, pursuant lo,hc authority here
in given or declared; or shall hurhor or
conceal such person, ailcr notice that he
or she was fugitive from labor, us aiorc.
said, shall, for either OF the said offences,
forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred
dollars. Whic, penalty may be recover.
cd by and for the benefit OF such claimant
bvaction of debt, many court proper tolry
the same; saving moreover, 10 the person
claiming such labor or service, his right o
action for. on account Of, the said injuries
or either of them. Improved, February
10 1901