The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-06-24

| Negroes
a 'oes who were Inhabitants of the State of Indiana
ANA before the nrst day Of November A. one thou
in this State and being now in nc
h to appear the ONCE OF The Clerk of
matters reefrng thereto will be heard ~nen an
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An AA TO enforce the 18Th Article of the Com.
stitution.
APPROVED JUNE Is, 1881
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Genera, 9.
senibty Of The State of Indiana, That il shall
not be lawful for any negro or mulatto to
come into, settle in, or become an inhabitant
of the State.
2. The clerks of the several circuit
courts in the State shall (give) notice, by
publication in the newspaper published in
their respective counties having the great
est circulation, and if no newspaper be pub.
lished therein, then by printed handbills post.
ed up in three of the most public places in
each township of said county, requiring all
negroes and mulattoes, who were inha Bit
ants Of the State prior to the first day of No.
vember, A. d. 1851; and entitled to reside
therein, to appear before him for register
! 8. Ii shall be the duty of er Oh clerk of
the said circuit courts to provide q suitable
book, to be called the register of negroes and
mulattoes, in which he shall record the name,
age, description, place of birth and residence
of every negro or mula,to who may present
himself or herself before him for the pur-
pose Of being registered, and also the names
OF the witnesses by whom the right of such
negro or mulatto to reside within the State of
Indiana, shall have been proven.
} a. The clerk of said circuit court, when
any negro or mulatto shall come before him
for the purpose of being registered, shall have
power to cause to cone before him such wit
nesses as may be necessary to prove the
right of inhabitation of such. negro or mulat.
to, by process of subpoena, and shall pro-
coed to hear and determine the right of such
negro or mulatto.
5. When the right of any such negro
or mulatto shall have been proven to the sa-
tisiaction of such clerk, he shall register the
said negro or mulatto in his register of ne
groes and mulattOes, and shall also issue to
such negro or mulatto certificate, under the
seal of the said court and attested by such
clerk setting forth the facts contained in
such register; which certificate shall be con-
elusive eviden &c of the facts stated i'm all prose-
cutions against the employers of negroes or
mulattoes, unless it is shown that the said
employer had notice that the same was OBJ
tanned by fraud or other undue means, or was
not genuine, and the same shall be PRIMA
FAcIA evidence only in all other cases and
shall be issued to such negro or mulatto with
out charge.
6. All contracts made with negroes or
mulattoes, VINO shall have come into the
State of Indiana subsequent to the first day
of November, A. ID. 1851, are hereby declar-
ed to be null and void.
u. Any person who shall employ a ne
gro or mulattO who shall come into the State
OF Indiana subsequent to the 3lst day of Oc-
tober, in the year one thousand eight hun
dred and fitty-one, or shall encourage such
negro or mulatto to remain in the State, shall
be fined in any sum not less than ten nor
more than FIVE hundred dollars.
8. This net shall apply only to con-
tracts made with negroes and nulattoes SUBJ
sequent to the passage Of this act.
8. Any negro or mulatto who shall
come into or settle in this State contrary
thereto, and in violation of the provisions of
the constitution, and of the first section Of
this act, shall be fined in any sum not less
than ten nor more than five hundred dollars.
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