The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
Missouri Legislatiop
The following bill is pending before
the bogus Legislature Of Kansas:


The following bill is pending before
the bogus Legislature of Kansas:
See. 1. Be it enacted, etc. That free
eolored persons who carry arms, are ex-
presslf directed tocarry with them a GER
tificate Of a Justice of the Peace attestiug
their freedom. for want of which they
Be subject se the easfeisHse of their
ar.lss.
Sec. g. The different crimes and often
ses. herewith particularly described, are
hereby declared to be capital crimes; that
is 10 say, that if any slave, free negro or
nulatto, shall mallciously burn or de-
strpy any stack of grain or produce. raw
or manufactured, of this Territory, or
shall set fire to, or shall wilfully or mali
ciously burn or destroy any building or
house. or shall wilfully or maliciously
poison or Inaliciously administer poison
to any freeman, woman, child, servantor
slare. or shall commit orattempt to com
nit rape upon the body of any white
woman or giri-this slave, free negro or
mulatto, shall suffer death; and if any
free man of color, as aforesaid, should
maliciously steal OF harbor any slave, he
or she shall suffer death.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of all nota-
ries, or other public officers, not to pass
any act wherein any free person of color
may be concerned without inserting after
4he name and surname of such free per-
son of color these words: .f. man or (. |
woman of c." il shall likewise be the du-
ty of all printers and auctioneers who
give public NOTES.-The object of which
is to announce the sale of some property
belonging to free person of color, to
comply with said formalities under the
penalty. for the delinquent, of paying a |
fine of SIo0, one-half of which shall be
tc the benefit of the informer, and the
other half to the use of the State.
Sec. a. II a free person of color insult
or assault and beat any white person,
such offender, on conviction of either of
said offenses, shall be punished by i'm
psisonment or thirty nine lashes on his
bare back, or by both, at the discretion
of the court, according to the enormity Of
the offcnse.
Sec. 5. No slave shall be admitted as
witness, either in civil or criminal mat
tors, fol. or againsta free person of color,
EXCEPT in case such free individual be
eiTaTE.e,fi with having raised, e7asteHPted
10 raise, an insurrection among the slaves
of this Territory; or with taking part in
their insurrection. either in acting or by
assisting or aiding them.
See. s.. No free negro or eolored per-
son who shall have been convicted of
any crime and sentenced to serve term
of years shall be imported or brought in
b the Territory, and if any such person
should be brought they shall be seized
and sold to the highest bidder for cash,
for the same term of service that they
have been condemned to serve from
whence they have been brought; one
halfofthe purchase money to be applied |
to the use of the Territory, and the other |
half to the use of the iufolnler; and eve |
ny person who shall importer bring into !
tits Territory such free negro or colored
person who shall have been condemned
as aforesaid, knowing it, shall, upon con-
Y;etion before ;lly court of competent |
jurisdiction. be fined in the sum of $500
'sssffeaeh and every offence, one halfthere- /
otto be applied to the Territory, and the
other half 10 the use of the iRiorrner.