The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-02

1T MEGROEs AND MuLLATOEs.
toes Who 1 1s,scy sivsn to all Negroes and Muua
on or before ~, sfs .ahabants Of the State Of Indiana
in S STATE and ssn. ssSS
the State Aforesaid Ss,ng nov IN vsnderbueh county in
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in accordance With the annexed A csf'd
JACOB LUNKENHRIMER,' ct ?Tsss we
A" ACT to snforcs the lsM Article Of the Con.
APPROVED JUNE Is, 1881
SECTION l. BE ii enacted by the General A..
sembly of the State of Indiana, That it shaI,
not be lawful tor any negro or mulatto to
come into, settle in, or become an inhabtant
of the State.
Q. 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 muattoes, who were inhabit-
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.
! 3. Ii shall be the duty of each 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 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.
| ( 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 con 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.
S. When the right of any such negro
or mulatto shall have been proven to the sa
| tisiactio 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 certificate, under thu
seahof the said court and attested by sucf
clerk setting forth the facts contained il
such register; which certificate shall be con
clusveeyiden e of the facts stated in all prose
cutions against the employers Of negroes o.
mulattoes, unless it is shown that the sal,
employer had notice that the same was OBJ
tanned by fraud or other undue means, or wa
not genuine, and the same shall be PRIMI
FAcIA evidence only in all other cases ans
shall be issued to such negro or mulatto with
out charge.
l. 6. All contracts made with negroes o.
mulattoes, who shall have come into tn,
State of Indiana subsequent to the first day
of November, A. d. 1851, are hereby declar
ed to be null and void.
u. Any person who shall employ ne
gro or mulatto who shall come into the State
Of Indiana subsequent to the 3lst day of DC
tcber, in the year one thousand eight hun
dred and iity-one, or shall encourage such
4 negro or muatto to remain in the State, shall
be finedin any sum not less than ten mol
more than FIVE hundred dollars.
8. This act shall apply only to con.
tracts made with negroes and Eulattoes sub.
sequent to the passage Of this act.
9. Amy negro or mulatto 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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