Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-22

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/ civil cases before courts of justice, with
out the exclusion of any witness on &C.
count of color; and they may summon be-
fore them the persons making claim to
service or labor, and examine them under
oath; and they may also, for purposes of
identification and appraisement, call be-
fore them the persons SO claimed Said
Commissioners shall appoint a clerk, who
shall keep files and complete record of all
proceedings before them, who shall have
power to administer oaths and afirmations
in said proceedings, and who shall issue
all lawful process by them ordered. The
Marshal of the District of Columbia shall
personally, or by deputy, attend upon the
| sessions of said Commissioners, and shall
execute the process issued by said clerk.
SIC. G. And be it further enactad, That
said Commissioners shall receive in COM
peusattou for their services the sum of
$4,000 each, TO be paid upon the filing OF
their reports and that said clerk shall re-
| ceive for his services the sum of 5000 per
mouth; that said Marshal shall receive
such fees as are allowed by law for similar
services performed by him in the Circuit
Court of the District of Columbia; that
the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause
all other reasonable expenses of SAID Com
mission to be audited and allowed, aud
that the said compensation. fees and ex-
penses shall be paid from the Treasury of
the United States.
SIC. 4 And be it further enacted, That
for the purpose of carrying this act into
elect, there is hereby appropriated, out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, sum not exceeding ST 900.
600.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
any person or persons who shall kidnap,
or in any manner transport or procure to
be taken out of said District, any person or
persons discharged or freed by the provi-
sions of this act, or any free person or
persons with intent to re-ensIave or sell
such person or persons Into slavery, or
shall re-enslave any of said freed persons,
the person or persons so offending shall be
deemed guilty.of felony, and on convic-
tiOn thereof in any court of competent
jurisdiction in said District, shall be i'm
nrisoned in the Penitentiary not less than
tive nor more than twenty years.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
within twenty days, or within such further
time as the Commissioners herein provided
for shall limit, after the passage of this act,
u statement in writingor schedule shall be
filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for the District of Columbia by the several
owners or claimants to the services of the
persons made free or manumitted by this
act, setting forth the names, ages, sex and
particular description of such persons,
severally; and the said Clerk shall receive
and record, in book by him to be provi-
ded and kept for that purpose, the said
statements or schedules. on receiving fifty
cents each therefor, and no claim shall be
allowed to any claimant or owner who shall
neglect this requirement.
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted,
That the said Clerk and his successors in
Office shall, from time to time, on demand,
and on receiving twenty five cents there
for, prepare, sign and deliver to each per-
son made free or manumitted by this act
n certificate under the seal of said Court,
setting out the name, age, and descrip-
ton of such person, and stating that such
person was duly manumitted and set free
by this act.
SEC. IL. And be it further enacted,
That the sum of 100000, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise ap-
propriatcd, is hereby appropriated, to be
expended under the direction of the Presi-
dent of the United States, to aid, in the
colonization and settlement of such free
persons of African descent now residing
in said District, including those to be
liberated by theis net, asmay desire to en-
igrate to the Republics of Hnyti, or Libe-
ria, or such other country beyond the;
limits of the United States MS the Presi-
dent may determine: Provided, Tho ex-
penditure for this purpose shall not ex-
ceed 500 for each emigrant
SEC. II Aud be it further enacted,
That all acts of Congress and all laws of
the state of Maryland in force in said Dis
trict, and all ordinances of the cities of
Washington and Georgetown, inconsis-
tent with the provisions of this act, are
hereby repealed