The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-27
RALEIGH, n. c., THURSDAY.

claimed. Said commissioners shall appoint a
clerk, who shall keep files and [a] COMP plete re-
cord of all proceedings before them, who shall
have power to administer oaths and afirmations
in said proceedings, and who shall issue all law
1ul process by them ordered. The Marshal of the
District of Columbia shall personally or by dep
uty, attend upon the sessions of said commission
ers, and shall execute the process isshed by said
clerk.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That said
commissioners shall receive in compensation for
their services the sum of two thousand dollars
each, to be paid upon the filing of their report :;
that said clerk shall receive for his services the
sum of two hundred dollars per month; 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 all other
reasonable expenses of said commission to be
audited and allowed, and that said compensation,
fees and expenses shall be paid from the Treasury
of the United States.
SEC. z. And be it further enacted, That for the
purpose OF carrying this act into effect there is
hereby appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, snm not
exceeding one million of dollars.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted, That any
person or persons who shall kidnap, in any
manner transport or procure to be taken out of
said District, any person or persons discharged
and freed by the provisions of this act any free
person persons with intent to re-enslave or sell
enslave any of said freed persons, the person or
persons offending shall be deemed guilty of a
felony, and on conviction thereof in any court of
competent Jurisdiction in said District, shall be
imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than five
more than twenty years.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That within
twenty days, within such further time the
commissioners herein provided for shall limit,
after the passage of this act, statement in writ
ing 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 manumitted by this
act, setting forth the names, ages, sex, and par
tcular description of such persons, severally;
and the said clerk shall receive and record, in a
book by him to be provided and kept for that
purpose, the said statements or schedules on re
ceiving fifty cents each therefor, and no claim
shall be allowed to any claimant or owner who
shall neglect this requil ement.
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 twen-
ty-fve cents therefor, prepare sign, and deliver
to each person made free manumitted by this
act, a certificate under the seal of said court set
person, and stating that such person was duly
manumitted and set free by this act.
SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That the
sum of one hundred thousand dollars, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriate
ed, is hereby appropriated, to be expended under
States, to aid in the colonization and settlement
of such free persons of African descent now re-
siding in said District including those to be lib
Grated by this act, as m1H desire to emigrate to
the Republics of Hayti or Liberia, sucn other
country beyond the limits of the United States
expenditure for this purpose shall not exceed one
hundred dollars for each emigrant.
SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That all acts
of Congress and all laws of the State of Maryland
in force in said District, and all ordinances of the
cities of Washington and Georgetown, inconsist-
repealed.
APPROVED April l6, 1862.