The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-06-18
An Act to entorce the 18th Article of the Con-
stttuttOn
APPROVED JUNE Is, 1881

A" Aca toentorce the 18th Article of the Con-
sfttutiOn.
APPROVED JUNE l8, 1881
SECTION i. BE 1t enacted bv the General As.
sem6ly Of the State of Indiana, That II shall
not be lawful tor any negro or mulatto IN
come into, settle in, or become an inhab;,an,
of the State.
} 2. The clerks of the several circu;t
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.
lshed therein, then by printed ham bills post
ed up in three Of the most public places in
each township OF said county, requiring all
negroes and mulattoes, who were inhabit-
ants of the State prior to the first day of No
vember, A. ID. 1851; and entitled to reside
therein, to appear before him for register.
8. IL shall be the duty Of e, Oh clerk of
the said circuit court 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.
3 A. The clerk Of said circuit court, when
any negro or muatto shall come before him
Tor the purpose of being registered, shall have
power to cause to COL before him such wit
neeses al may be necessary to prove the
right Of inhabitatiUn of such negro or n.ulat.
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.
tisiactiUn OF such clerk, he shall register the
said negro or mulatto in his register of ne.
groes and mulsitoes, and shall also issue tc
such negro or mulattO a 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 eOi the facts stated in all prose.
cutiOns against the employers OF negroes OF
mulattoes, unless it is shown that the said
employer had notice that the same was OBJ.
tanned by fraud or other undue means, was
not genuine, and the same shall be PRIMA
FAcIA evidence only in all other cases aid
shall be issued to such negro or mulatto with
out charge.
q. All contracts made with negroes or
muiattoes, who shall have come into the
State OF Indiana subsequent to the first day
Of November, A. ID. 1891, are hereby declar-
ed to be null and void.
z. Any person who shall employ ne
gro or mulutto who shall come into the State
OF lndiuna subsequent to the 3lst day of Oc-
tober, in the year one thousand eight hun
dred and fiIty-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 mulattoes SUBJ
sequent to the passage of this act.
9. Any 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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