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An Act to remove the Free Negroes and Mulattoes from this State. 1858-1859 175 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0144 and id is 1 raw text is: 175 No. 151. AN ACT to remove the Free Negroes and Mulattoes from this State. SECTION 1. No free negro or mulatto to reside within the state after January 1st, 1860. 2. Made the duty of the sheriff of each county, to arrest, without warrant, any free negro or mulatto found in the state after January 1st, 1860, and after giving notice, to hire him or her publicly, for the term of twelve months. Hirer to give bond and the conditions thereof. Ne- gres so hired to be held as slaves, . and at the expiration of thirty days, if they remain within the state, how to be dealt with. 3. Duty of sheriffs, prosecuting attor- neys and circuit courts, in relation to free negroes who remain. 4. Clerk to issue writ of exposure. to sale. Sale, how made. Provi- sion for the disposition of children. 5. Proceeds after deducting costs, to be paid into the county treasury. 6. Sheriffs to seize all free negroes and SECTION mulattoes between the ages of seven and twenty-one years, and hire them out until they become twenty-one years old. The proceeds to be paid into the county treasury, to be paid over to the negro. Penalty for sell- ing such hireling. Provisions for children and apprentices. 7. Upon the arrival of the hireling at twenty-one years of age, to leave the state, and penalty for refusal to do so. 8. Provision for those who may wish to choose a master or mistress. Pur- chaser to give bond. Provision for children. Negro, how valued and paid for. 9. Fees of officers under this act. 10. Made unlawful to emancipate slaves in this state. 11. County courts to make provision of .children, aged, infirm and pauper, free negroes and mulattoes. 12. All conflicting laws repealed. SECTION .1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That no free negro or mulatto shall be permitted to reside within the limits of this state after the first day of January, A. D. 1860. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any free negro or mu- latto, over the age of twenty-one years, shall be found within the limits of this state after the first day of January, A. D. 1860, it shall be the duty of the sheriffs of the several counties to arrest, without any warrant, such free negro or mulatto; and after giving twenty days' notice at five of the most public places in the county, shall hire him out at public outcry, at the court-house door, to the highest bidder, for the term of twelve months; and the person so hiring said free negro or mulatto, shall be required to give bond, with good and sufficient security, for the hire of said free negro or mulatto, and furnish him with the usual amount of clothing that is usually given to hired slaves; that the proceeds arising from the hire of said free negro or mulatto, shall be paid to said sheriff quarterly in advance, and which shall be paid to said free negro or mulatto by the sheriff, when the time expires for which he was hired, with instructions by the sheriff to leave the state within thirty days; Provided, That the free negro or mulatto so hired, shall be taken and held for the time he is hired out, as slaves are now held; if at the expiration of thirty days any of the afore-

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