The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-06-30

I TT MEGRoEs AND MuLLAroEs.
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An Act @eafarcs the ls& Article of the Con.
stitution.
APPROVED JUNE 10, 1881
Section l. Be II enacted by tie Genera, A..
se'nb!y Of TIE State Of Indiana, That it .han
not DC lawful for any negro or mulatto TO
come into, settle in, or become an inhs bi,,n,
Of the State.
2. The clerks of the several circuit
courts in the State shall (give) notice, bv
publication in the newspaper published i'm
their respective counties having the great.
est circulation, and if no newspaper be pub.
iished 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 foe register.
8. 1t shall be the duty Of er ch clerk of
the said circuit courts to provide 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 mulatto 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
Indian ahall have hoon nrovon
4. 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.
neeses IA 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.
8. When the right Of any such negro
or mulatto shall have been proven to the ga
tisiaction Of such clerk, he shall register thu
said negro or mulatto in his register of ne
groes and mulattoes, and shall also issue t.
such negro or mulatto a certificate, under thu
seal of the said court and attested by such
clerk setting forth the facts contained il
such register; which certificate shall be con
elusive eviden &c of the facts stated in all prose
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mulattoes, unless it is shown that the sal,
employer had notice that the same was OBJ
tanned by fraud or other undue means, ,r wa.
not genuine, and the same shall be PRIMl
rAcfA evidence only in all other cases ant
shall be issued to such negro or mulatto with
out charge.
6. All contracts made with negroes o,
mulattoes, who shall have come into thu
State of Indiana subsequent to the first day
Of November, A. D. 1851, are hereby declar
ed to be null and void.
"a. 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 fity-one, or shall encourage such
negro or mulstto to remain in the State, shall
be 6nedin any sum not less than ten mol
more than Eve hundred dollars.
4. This net shall apply only to con.
tracts made with negroes and mulattoes sub.
sequent to the passage of this act.
9. Any negro or mulotto who shall
come into or settle in this State contrary
thereto, and in violation of the provi ions 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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