Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-10-24

lprompt and efficient execution o
o this law whenever their services MAJ
be required as aforesaid for the pur
4 pose; and said warrants shall run ant
: be executed by said officers anywher
in the state, within which they al,
, executed.
SEC. 6. And be 1t further enacted
That when a person held to service
or labor in any state o. territory o
i, the UniIed States, has heretofore o.
; shall hereafter escape into another
state or territory ofthe United States
, the person or persons TO whom sucf
services or labor may be due, or his
or her, or their agent or attorney
duly authorized, by power ofattorney
in writing, acknowledged and certi,
fled under the seal Of some legal off.
Ger or court Of the state or territory
in which the same may be executed,
may pursue and reclaim such fugi-
tive person, either by procuring a
warrant from some one Of the courts,
Judges or commissioners aforesaid,
of the proper circuit, district, or
county, for the apprehension of such
fugitive from service or labor, or by
seizlng and arresting such fugitive,
where the same can be done without
process, and by taking, or causing
such person TO be taken, forthwith
before such court, judge or commits
sioner, whose duty il shall be 10 hear
and determine the case Of such claim
ant in a summary manner; and upon
satisfactory proof being made, by
deposition or affidavit, in writing,
TO be taken and certified by such
court, judge or commissioner, or by
other satisfactory testimony, duly ta-
ken and certified by some court,
magistrate, justice of the peace, or
other legal officer authorized to ad-
minister an oath and take dispositions
under the laws of the state or terri
tory from which such person owing
service or labor may have escaped,
with a certificate oil such magistracy
or other authority, as aforesaid, with
the seal Of the proper court or Off
Ger thereto attached, which seal
shall be sufficient 10 establish the
competency of the proof, and with
proof also by affidavit, Of the identity
of the person whose service or labor
is said TO be due as aforesaid, thai
the person so arrested does in fact
owe service or labor 10 the person
or persons claiming him or her, in the
state or territory from which such
fugitive may have escaped, as aiOre-
said, and that said person, escaped,
TO make out and deliver to such
claimant, his or her agent or attor
ney, a certificate setting forth the
facts as to the service or
labor due from each fugitive TO The
and of his or her escape
from the state or territory in which
such service or labor was due, TO the
state or territory in which he 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 neces-
sary, under the circumstances Of the
case, to take and remove such fugi-
tive person back to the state or terri
tory from whence he or she may
have escaped as aforesaid. In no
trial or hearing under this act, shall
The testimony of such alledged fugi-
i've be admitted in evidence; and the
in this and the first Sec /:
ion mentioned shall be conclusive Of
he right Of the person or persons in
whose favor granted, TO remove such
fugitive to the state or territory from
which he escaped, and shall prevent
III molestaiion OF said person or per- -,
ons by any process issued by any ;
:ourt, judge, magistrate, or other per- !
on whomsOever. 6
Sec. Z. And be 1t further enacted, :
That any person who shall know /
ngly Obstruct, hinder or prevent q
uch claimant, his agent, or attorney, l
IT any person or persons, lawfully
him, her, or them, from ar 7
esting such fugitive from service or c
abor, either with or without process, I
IS aforesaid; or shall rescue, or at
empt to rescue such fugitive from
ervice or labor, from the custody Of
uch claimant, his or her agent or
Ittorney, or other person or persons I
awfully assisting as aforesaid when I
% arrested, pursuant to the authority I
herein given and declared; or shall /
lid, abet, or assist such person so c
,wing service or labor, as aforesaid, {
lirectly or indirectly TO escape from q
iuch claimant, his agent or attorney, '
,r other persons legally authorized
Is aforesaid, or shall harbor or con-
zeal such fugitive, so as TO prevent
he discovery and arrest OF such per-
ION, after notice or knowledge of the :
act that such person was a fugitive a
rom service or labor as aforesaid, a
hall, for either OF said offences be S