The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-12
PUBLIC-No. lar.

AN ACT supplementary to the Act for the release
of certain persons held to service labor in the
District Of Columbia approved April sixteen,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
Bel enacted bg the Senate and House of Representa-
tires of the United States Of america ia Congress
se1nbled That the oath or affirmation required by
the second section of the act entitled An act for
the release Of certain persons held to service la
Dor in the District Of Columbga," to verify the
statements petitions in writing filed before the
commissioners, under the act aforesaid of persons
holding claim to service or labor against persons of
African desc Mt freed and discharged therefrom,
under the act aforesaid, may in all cases in which
the persons holding claims, as aforesaid, are in
fants and minors, be made by the guardian or by
any other person, whether separately or jointly,
having the custody, management, or control by
law of the person and property of such infants or
minors; and that in all in which the persons
holding claims aforesaid non-residents of the
District of Columbia, or resident absentees, the
oath or affirmation required as aforesaid may be
made by the attorney agent of said resident
resident absentees and in all in which the
statements or petitions, required as aforesaid, of
persons in the military or naval service Of the Uni
ted States shall have been may be hereafter
flied before any commander of any military post,
or Of any officer having separate command of any
military force in the field, before any captain,
| commander, or lieutenant commanding in tho
w, the shall be received and deemed valid, to
all intents and purposes, fully if the vertical
tion had been or were made before any officer COM
petent by Law to take and administear oaths and
| affirmations Prorided, That the commissioners
shall be satisfied that at the time of the vertical
ton aforesaid, the person making the same
employed in the military naval service of the
Unitad States, within the jurisdiction of rebell
| ious State or Territory, and unable to make the
oath or affirmation required, Aforesaid, before
any officer authorized by law to take or administer
the same, holding allegiance to the United States.
Sec. 2 Aad be Il further eIiacted, That if any per-
son having claim to the service or labor ofany per-
son or persons In the District of Columbia by rea-
| son of African descent shall neglect refuse to
file with the clerk Of the Circuit Court of the Dis
| trict of Columbia the statement in writing or
/ schedule provided in the ninth section of the act
approved April sixteen, eighteen hundred ond six
ty-two to which this is supplementary then shall
be lawful for the person or persons whose services
are claimed aforesaid to file such statement in
writing or schedule setting forth the particular
facts mentioned in said ninth section; and the said
clerk shall receive and record the as provided
10 said section receiving fifty cents each therefor.
| Sec 3. And be IL Further enacted, That whenever
the facts set forth in the statement cor schedule
shall be found by the Commissioners be true the
said clerk and his successors in office shall prepare
sign, and deliver certificates prescribed in the
tenth section of the act to which this is supplement
tary, to such person persons shall file their
statements in pursuance Of the foregoing section
in all respects the same if such statements were
filed By the person having claim to their service OF
labor.
Sec A. And be u further enacted, That all persons
held to service labor under thelaws ofany State
and who at any time since the sixteenth day Of
Il April, ammo Domini eighteen hundred and sixty
two by the consent of the person to whom such ser
vice or abor is claimed to be owing, have been ac
tually employed within the District of Columbia OF
who shall be hereafter thus employed, are hereby
declared free, and forever released from such ser
vitude any thing in tho laws of the United States
or ofany State to the contrary notwithstanding.
l. Sec 5 And be further enacted, That in all Judi
cial proceedings in the District Of Columbia Their
shall be no exclusion Of any witness on account o
color.
1 Approyed July II 1862