 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1844 - 268 pages
...WAsHINGToN. Nor has it, as the committee are informed, ever been proposed in Congress to repeal it. It is "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." The third section provides that when any person held to labor in any of the states, under their laws,... | |
 | Illinois - Illinois - 1845 - 766 pages
...14ill, 180:2, sec. a. tl7) Act March ad, 181a, sec H. Story la04. FUGITIVES FROM LABOR AND JUSTICE. AN ACT RESPECTING FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND PERSONS ESCAPING FROM THE SERVICE OF THEIR MASTERS. SECTION I. Be it enacted, by the Senate and Hmise of Representatives of the United Slates of America,... | |
 | Massachusetts - Session laws - 1845 - 812 pages
...passed Feb- ma°l,F°b'i2, ruary twelfth, seventeen hundred and ninety-three, and 1793.' entitled " an Act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters," to any person who claims any other person as a fugitive slave within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth.... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...been already adjusted. (Obsolete.) Feb. 13, 1793 301 Fugitives from Justice — Fugitives from Labour. An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. Feb. 12, 1793 302 Enrolling and Licensing Vessels in the Coasting Trade and Fisheries. An act for enrolling... | |
 | Henry G. Cotton - Justices of the peace - 1845 - 570 pages
...justice, being fully understood, I do hereby, in pursuance of the law of the United States, entitled " An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their rna»ters,'' give to the said AB a certificate thereof, to wit, that the said EF, tho person named... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 1484 pages
...the third and fourth sections of the act approved February, 12, 1793, entitled " An act concerning fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters:" which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. Augustus C. Dodge: A memorial of the legislature... | |
 | Samuel Finley Vinton - Fugitive slaves - 1846 - 44 pages
...punishment inflicted, except it be provided for by the act of Congress of the 12th of Februaty^nS3, entitled "An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and persons escaping from the service of their Masters.". (See 2 Vol. LUS 331.) . Passing over this enquiry, tbe .question returns, was this act done within... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1849 - 1130 pages
...deliberations finally resulted in the act of 1793, which was passed without opposition and is as follows: AN ACT respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, 6fc., That whenever the executive authority of any State in the Union, or... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc - Law - 1847 - 580 pages
...congress, passed on the twelfth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters ;" nor shall any such judge, alderman or justice of the peace of this commonwealth, issue or grant... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 668 pages
...decisions of Maryland examined. Ibid. 3. Under the fourth section of the act of 12th February, 1793, respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their master, on a charge for harbouring and, concealing fugitives from labor, the notice need not be in... | |
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