Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-10-05

States, the person or persons TO whom sucl
service or labor mny be due, or his, her, 0
their agent or attorney, duly authorized, b.
power of attorney, in writing, acknowledge
and certified under the seal Of some lega
officer or court of the State or Territory il
which the same may be executed, may pur
sue and reclaim such fugitive person, eithe
by procuring a warrant from some one
the courts, judges, or commissioners afore
said, of the proper circuit, district, or county
for the apprehension of such fugitive from
service or labor, or by seizing aud arrestins
such fugitive, where the same can be dont
without process, and by taking, or causing
such person TO be taken, forthwith before
such court. Judge, or commissioner, whose
duty il shall be TO hear and determine the
case of such claimant in q summary man.
ner; aud upon satisfactory proof being
made, by deposition or affidavit, in writing
TO be taken and certified by such court
judge, or commissioner, or 10y other satisfac-
tory testimony, duly taken and certified by
some court, magistrate, justice of the peace,
or other legal officer authorized to admins
ter an oath and tuke depositiUns under the
laws of the State or Territory from which
such person owing service or labor may
have escaped, with a certificate of such
magistracy or other authority, us aforesaid,
with the seal of the proper court or officer
thereto attached, which seal shall be sufli-
cient TO establish the competency ofthe proof,
and with proof also by affidavit, of the itlen-
" of the person Whose service or labor IL
cluimed TO be due MS aforesaid that the per-
son so arrested does in fact owe service or
labor TO the person or persons claiming him
or her, in the State or Territory from which
such fugitive may have escaped as aforc-
said, and that said person escaped, TO mike
ont and deliver 10 such claimant, his or her
agent or attorney, a certificate setting forth
the substantial facts as TO the service or labor
due from such fugitive TO the claimant, and
of his OF her escape from the State or Ter
ritory in which such service or labor was
due, TO the Sttc or Territory in which Inc or
she was arrested, with authority to such
claimant, or his or her agent or attorney, to
use such reasonable force and restraint as
may be necessary, under the circumstances
of the case, TO take and remove such fiigi-
tive person back to the State or Territory
whence he or she may have escaped as
aforesaid. In no trial or hearing under this
act shall the testimony of such alleged fugi-
tive be admitted in evidence ; and the GER
fifcates in this and the first section mention
cd shall be conclusive of the right of the
person or persons in whose favor granted 10
remove snch fugitive 10 the State or Terrific.
ry from which he escaped, und shall prevent
all molestation of such person or persons by
any process issued by any court, Judge, mag
istrnte, or other person whomsoever
Sec. z. Ind be il further enacted, That any
person who shall knowingly and willingly
obstruct, hinder, or prevent such claimant,
his agent, or attorney, or any person or per-
sons lawfully assisting him, her, or them,
from arrcsting such fugitive from service
or labor, either with or without process as
aforesaid; or shall rescue, or attempt to
rescue, such fugitive from service or labor
from the custody of such claimant, his or
her agent or attorney, or other person or per-
sons lawfully assisting as aforesaid, when so
arrested, pursuant TO the authority herein
given and declared, or shall aid, abet, or as
sist such person so owing service or labor
as aforesaid, directly or indirectly, TO escape
from such claimant, his agent or attorney, or
other person or persons legally authorized as
aforesaid; or shall harbor or conceal such
fugitive, so as to prevent the discovery and
arrest of such person, after notice or know
ledge of the fact that such person was a iugi-
tive from service or labor, as aforesaid, shall,
for either of said offences, be subject TO
Illlc DOL cACctulllH inOuSuHu anu
imprisonment not exceeding six months, by
Indictment and conviction before the district
court of the United States for the district in
which such offence may have been commit
ted, or before the proper court of criminal
jurisdiction, if committed within any enc Of
the organized Territories of the United
States and shall moreover forfeit and pay,
by way of civil damages, 10 the party injur
ed by such illegal conduct, the sum of one
thousand dollars for each fugitive so lost as
aforesaid, to be recovered by action of debt,
in any of the district or territorial courts
aforesaid, within whose jurisdiction the said
offence may have been committed.
Sec. 6. .4nd be il further enacted, That the
marshals, their deputies, and the clerks of
the said district and territorial courts, shall
be paid for their services the like fees ns may
be allowed to them for similar services in
other cases and where such services are
rendered exclusively i'm the arrest, custody,
and delivery of the fugitive 10 the claimant,
his or her agent or attorney, or where such
supposed fugitive may be discharged out of
custody for the want of sufficient proof as
aforesaid, then such fees are to be paid in
the whole by such claimant, his agent or at
torney; and in all cases where the proceed
ings IRE before commissioner, he shall be
entitled TO fee of ten dollars in full for his
services in each case, upon the delivery OF
the said certificate to the claimant, bis or her
agent or attorney; or fee of five dollars in
cases where the proof shall not in the opin-
ion of such commissioner, warrant such GER
tificste and delivery, inclusive of al services
incident to such arrest aud examination, TO
be paid, in either case, by the claimant, his
or her agent or attorney. The person or
persons authorized TO execute the process 10
be issued by such commissioners for the
arrest and detention of flgitives from SER
vice or labor as aforesaid, shall also be enti-
tied to a fee of five dollars each for each
person he or they may arrest and take be-
fore any such commissioner as aforesaid, ut
the instance and request of such claimant,
with such other fees as may be deemed rca-
sonable by such commissioner for such other