The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-09-01
Fruits OF the Nebraska Bill.

and ponder upon it
AN ACT TO PUNISH OFFENCES AGAINST SLAVE
PROPERTY.
Sec. Every person, bond or free, convict
ed of raising rebellion of slaves, free ne
groes or mulattoes, shall suffer death.
Sec. 2. Every free person who shall aid in
any rebellion of slaves, &C., or do any overt
act in furherance hereof. shall suffer death
Sec. 3. If any free person shall by speak
ing, writing, or printing, advise, induce, &c,
any slaves to rebel, conspire against or muir
der any citizens of Kansas, or shall import
or aid in importing such documents, he shall
suffer DEATH
Sec' T. 1t any person shall entice decov
or carry out OF Kansas any slave belonging
TO another, with intent to deprive the owner
thereof OF the services of such slave, or pro-
cure the freedom of such slave, he shall suf
fer death or be imprisoned at hard labor for
not less than ten years.
Sec. 3. If any person shall assist in enti-
cling, &C., (as above) he shall suffer death or
be imprisoned at hard labor for no, less than
ten years.
Sec. 6. If any person shall entice or carry
away out of any state or territory Of the u.
s. any slave, and shall bring such
slave into this territory, &c, X he shall
suffer death, or be imprisoned at hard labor
for not less than ten years.
Sec. z. lfany person shall entice any slave
to escape from the service of his master or
owner, or shall aid any slave in escap-
ing, he shall be imprisoned at hard labor
for not less than five years.
Sec. 8. If any person in this territory shall
aid or harbor any escaped slave from another
state, such person shall be punished in
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from his master in this territory.
Sec. 9. If any person shall resist any Off
Ger while attempting to arrest any slave that
may have escaped, or shall rescue such
slave, or aid such slave to escape from the
officer, the person so offending shall be im-
pris0ned at hard labor for not less than two
years.
Sec. 10. If any marshal, sheriff or consta-
Bile, or the deputy of any such officer, shall,
when required, refuse to aid or assist in the
capture of any slave that may have escaped,
such officers shall be fined not less than $l00
nor more than $500
Sec. Ii. If any person shall print, write
introduce into, publish or circulate, or cause
to be brought into, printed written, pub
tished or circulated, or shall knowingly aid
or assist in bringing into, printing, publish
ing or circulating within this territory, any
book, paper, &C., containing any statements,
doctrines, &C., calculated to produce disaf-
tection among the slaves of the territory, he
shall be punished by imprisonment at hard
labor for not less than five years.
Sec. IL. If any free person shall, by speak
ing or by writing, assert or maintain, that
persons haze not the right to hold slaUes in the
territory, or shall introduce into Kansas,
print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to
be introduced into the territory, written,
printed, published or circulated in this terri
tory, any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet,
or circular, containing any denial of the right
of persons to hold slaves in this territory,
such persons shall be deemed guilty of felony,
and punished by imprisonment at hard labor
for term of not less than two years
Sec. Is. No person who is conscenciously
opposed to holding slaves x shall sit as a
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