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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1819

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Página 269 - included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, for ever prohibited: Provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in
Página 237 - party shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited: Provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any state or territory of the United States, such fugitive may, he lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service, as
Página 269 - escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any other state, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service, as aforesaid: Provided, nevertheless, that the said provision shall not be construed to alter the condition or civil rights of any person now held to
Página 162 - of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; which, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution, to wit:—
Página 254 - labor or service is lawfully claimed in any other state, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service, as aforesaid: Provided, nevertheless, that the said provision shall not be construed to alter the condition or civil rights of any person now held to service or labor in the said territory.
Página 254 - may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor, or service, as aforesaid: Provided, nevertheless, that the said provision shall not be construed to alter the condition or civil rights of any person now held to service or labor in the said territory." The question was then stated to concur in the said amendment; when,
Página 269 - 8. And be it further enacted. That, in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of " Louisiana," which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, hot' included within the limits of the state contemplated by
Página 119 - and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have, by law or usage, in the courts of the state from whence the said records are or shall be taken:
Página 180 - United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States be proposed to the legislatures of the several states; which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution: That
Página 41 - of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this House, any information he may possess respecting certain executions or other punishments which may have been inflicted in the army of the United States, since the year 1815, contrary to the laws and regulations provided for the government of the same.

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