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An Act to prohibit the publication, circulation, or promulgation of the abolition doctrines. 1850-1851 22 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0081 and id is 1 raw text is: An act to change in part the time of holding the circuit courts of the 1st Judicial Circuit. Sr.crroy SECTION 1. Circuit court of Phillips county to by this act. be held on the third Mondays after 3. All laws conflicting with this act re- the first Mondays of May and No- pealed, and this act to take effect vember. and be in force from and after its 2. Writs and process already issued to passage. be impaired or rendered ineffective S.c. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That hereafter the circuit court of the county of Phillips shall commence and be holden on the third Mondays after the first Mondays of May and November in each year. SEc. 2. Be itfurther enacted, That no suit, action, recognizance, hail bond, appeal or other proceeding pending in said circuit court, or made returnable to said court as fixed by the laws now in force shall be avoided, impaired or affected by the provisions of this act, but that all such process and other proceedings shall stand and be re- turnable to the court held according to this act, and shall have full ef- fect accordingly; and all continuances in said court shall be from the last term to the term appointed by this act; and that no suit or other proceeding pending in or returnable to said court shall be discontin- ued or in any manner affected by the change hereby made. NFc. 3. Be it further enact d, That all laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are herel;y repea'ed, and this act shall take ef- feet and be in force from and after its passage. T. B. FLOURNOY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. R. HAMPTON, President of the Senate. Approved, Nov. 22d, 1850. JOHN SELDEN ROANE. An act to prohibit the publication, circulation, or promulgation of the abolition doctrines. Sect~oN Sz-rzoNv 1. Penalty enacted for any free person any thing written or printed, tend- who, by speaking or writing, shall ing to advise or incite negroes to re- maintain that owners have not right bet, or make insurrection, or to in- of property in their slaves. culcate resistance to the right of 2. Penalty enacted for any free person property of their masters. who shall write, print. or cause to 3. This act to take effect and be in force be written or printed or circulated from and after its passage.

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