The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-06-20
An Act to enforce the ls.h Article of the Con.
sttfutioI.
[AppRoyEp JUNE l8, 1852.

[APpRovED JUNEA1s, 1882
Section /. Be it enacted by the General As
sen1biy of the State of Indiana, That it shall
not be lawful tor any negro or mufatto 10
come into, settle in, or become an inhabitan.
Of the State.
81. The clerks Of the several circuit
courts in the State shall (give) notice, by
publication in the newspaper published ri
their respective counties having the great
est circulation, and if no newspaper be pub
lshed 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 .Iaulattoes, who were inhabit-
ants of the State prior to the first day of No
yember, A. u. 1851; and entitled To reside
therein, to appear before him for register.
! 8. Ii shall be the duty of ecch 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, piece of birth and residence
of every negro or mula,to who may present
himself or herself before hi5n for the pur-
pose of being registered, and also the names
Of the witnesses by whom the right OF such
negro CIR muiatto 10 reside within the State of
Indiana, shua ,have been proven.
|, t4. The clerk of said circuit court, when
any negro or mulatto shall come before him
for the purpose of being registered, shall have
powe- 10 cause to con before him such wit
nesses as may 5e necessary to prove the
right of inhabitation of eueh negro or nalat
to, by process of subpoena, and shall pro-
coed to hear and !letermine the right of such
negro CT r,ulatte.
5 To- When the right of any such negro
lor mulatto shall have been provento the sa
tis,aoton of such clerk, he shrl register The
said negro OF mriatto in his register of ne
groes and mulattoes, and shall also issue tG
such negro or mulatto certificate, under the
seal of the said court and attested by suct
clerk setting forth the facts contained il
such register; which certificate shall be con
elusive eYiden ce OF thefacrs stetedin ell prose
lcutions against tie employers of negroes o.
mulattoes, unless it is shown that the sais
employer had notice that the same was OBJ
tanned by fraud or other undue means, or wa.
not genuine, and the same shall be PaIMl
rAcIA evidence only in all other cases anS
shall be issued to such negro or mulatto with
out charge.
e.. All contracts made with negroes Oh
mulattoes, who shall have come into the
State of Indiana subsequent to the first day
of November, A. D. 1851, are hereby declar
ed to be null and void. -
81. ANY person who shall employ ne.
gro or mulatto who shall come into the Stats
of Indiana subsequent to the 3lst day of DC.
ftober, IN the year one thousand eight hnn
d-ed and fiity:one, or shall encourage such
RI negro or muiatto to remain in the State, shall
be Il ned in any sum not less than ten mel
more than five hundred dollars. " "a.
- 8. This act shall apply only to con-
tracts made with negroes and nulattoes SUBJ
secuent to the passage Of this act.
8 g. 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 o.
this act, shall be fined in any sum not les.
+ than ten nor more than FIVE hundred dollars
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