Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-02-07
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signed bnt such statement shall not be conclusive,
but the Assessor shall view the slave and make up
his own judgement and determination and shall re-
turn to the State Treasurer, the account so given
with the copy of his assessment list. III any per-
SON when required, shall refuse or omit to give in
any slave to the Assessor wfully misstate the
age or term of service such person shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not exceeding
one hundred dollars.
SEC. l6. Ind be IL further enacted, That as
to children Of slave mothers born after this Act
goes into operation, and also as to such persons
mentioned in the fourth section hereof as are to
serve until the ages of eighteen and twenty-one re-
spectively, they shall until the General Assembly
shall further provide for the regulation of the rea
tion of master and servant as mentioned in the
third and fourth section of this Act be considered
as persons bound under the third section of chapter
70 of the Revised Statutes and all law relating to
such persons, SHALL so far the same may be ap-
plicable he extended and applied to them respec-
lively,
SIC. IT. And be ii further enacted That no slave
or person held TO involuntary service shall after the
time when this Act shall go into operation us here
in before provided he brought or sent into this
State except as follows:
BIIa Until the first day of January one thous
and eight hundred and seventy two, slave escaping
from this State may be lawfully brought back.
Second. Until the first day Of January one thous-
and eight hundred and seventy two any resident of
the State may employ his slaves being mariners
watermen in or out of the State in the due course
of such employment, the same being duly brought
back.
Third, Any person at any time hereafter coming
into this State upon visit for transient purpose
may bring any slaves for his attendance, and carry
them back
F5urH, Any person residing in the State of Mary
land may at any time hereafter send his slaves into
this State on an orrand of business
fntil tta fret pf onnt
eight hundred and seyenty-two, any person residing
in this State, and ut any time hereafter any person
residing in the State of Maryland and occupying land
through which the State line runs, may lawfully pass
and lepass his slaves in the due course Of employ
ment or any part of sad land
Any slave or person held to involuntary servitnlo
who may be brought sent into this State otherwise
than as above excepted and not being person hee-
ing or escaping within the perview of the second
section Of the lourth Article of the Constitution Of
the United States shall thereby become and be free
and any provision of law to the contrary thereof is
hereby repealed.
SEC Is. lind be il FURTHER enacted, That in addi-
tion to the security now required by law, the State
Treasurer who may be in office at the time when this
Act shall go into operation shall give bond in the
penal sum of one hundred thousand dollars with suf-
cient sureties to be approved by the Governor such
bond to be in the form now prescribed by law, and all
monies, bonds and securities that shall come into his
hands by reason OF this Act snail pc deemed 10 De Ill
his hauds State Treasurer; and the condition of
the official bond heretofore given well as the bond
hereby required shall be deemed and taken to extend
to the monies, bonds and securities which shall accrue
and come to his hands by reason of this Act
In he shall not, within twenty days after this
act shall so into operations give bond as above
quired his Office shall be deemed vacant and another
person shall be appointed State Treasurer. In case
of future appointments of State Treasurer, until the
General Assembly shall otherwise direct, the sum in
which he shall be required to be bound shall be
hundred and thirty thousand dollars instead of thirty
. thousand now provided by law.
SEC 10. And be It further enacted, That the
State Treasurer shall from time to time as
" may be proper and for the best interest Of the
: fund.- dispose of the bonds that may come to
his hands, so far as may be necessary to keep him
self in funds to carry out the purposes of this act
Il SEC. 20. lad be ii further enacted, That as com
pensation for the increased duties imposed him by
this act the State Treasurer shall receive annually
the sum Of five hundred dollars in addition to the
'. sum now provided by law.
u SEC 81. Aaid be ii further enacted That imme
diatey upon the passage Of the act of Congress- and
u on receipt of the bonds of the United Staes in pay
e ment Of the first instament of ninety thousand dollars
u as aforesaid, the State Treasurer shall inform the
II Governor thereof and the Governor il requested tC
issue his Proclamation announcing the fact, and tht
y Secretary Of State is directed cause this act witt
le such Proclamation to be published in all the news
papers of this State, for the space of three months
g for public information,