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An Act to provide for the sale of runaway slaves confined in the Penitentiary. 1860-1861 354 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0159 and id is 1 raw text is: 354 ACTS OF conflicting with this act shall be, and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ArPnovr., January 19th, 1861. No. 178. AN ACT to provide for the sale of runaway slaves confined in the Penitentiary. I. Runaway negroes confined in peni. tentiary to be sold after two years. Cunflicting laws repealed. Keeper to give mix weeks' notice of sale in newspaper. -0e to be made at court bouw' j, Pulaski county. Purchaser to pay into treasury pur- chase money. Auditor to certify payment to keeper. Governor to execute bill of sale to purchaser. Stersov 2. Advertisement to be published two years. 3. Compensation of keeper for selling slave. Private secretary allowed five dollars for dru lng bill of sale. 4. All expenses to be paid out of pur- chase money, on warrant of auditor, when not more than one slave sold for. 5'. Act infurce from its passage. SEcTios 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That so much of chapter one hundred and sixty- two, of the Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, as requires runaway slaves, whose owners fail to apply for them, to be kept in the penitentiary for life, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and hereafter any runaway slave who has been or may be in the penitentiary for two years, shall be sold and dis- posed of as follows: At the end of two years, if the owner, in person, or by agent, still fails to come forward and legally claim and take away said slave, the keeper of the penitentiary shall advertise in the newspaper conducted by the public prin- ter, if one be published in the city of Little Rock, if not, in

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