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An Act to amend the several acts concerning the importation and emancipation of Slaves. 1814 435 (1814)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0077 and id is 1 raw text is: C 4135 J CIAP. QCLXVIII. . . ACT to amend the several acts concerning the importation and emancipation of ,Slaves. Ar ,ovjri, February 8, i8t. Si c. E. it enacted by the General .Assembly of the Cotinratealth ol Rentiutkh, 'I iat froim ani a.Ii o ilave t ter the passage of this act, nt slave or slaves shall ti;, lie imported into this coinmonwealth. Src. 2. lIe it further enacted, That every per- son hereafter importing slaves into this common- wealth, contrary to this act, shall ferfeit and pay rpu. th sum of six hundred dollars, for every slave so imported : And every person selling or buying ary such slave, shall, in like manner, forfeit and pay the Nualurr buy- suin of two hundred dollars, for every such slave so ig f, MUing. sold or, bought : which sums shall he recoverable on io, bu tll indictment or information in any court of record, to e,'. and shall belong to the commonwealth, and be paya- ble into the treasury thereof. An indictment for a. ny of the penalties inflIcztd by this act, shall nut be subject to any shorter limitation than five years from the time of the commission of the oflence; and such indictment may lie ound oil the infio;mnation of any one of the grand,*uly, or any other credible person, and no prosecutor shall be neessary in said indictment. On the trial of any such indictment, if V,,t it be proved on behalf of the cmnmonwealth, t hat uiv'. the defendant or defendants have brounght to this state any slave and sold the same, it shall he stuf- ficient to sbiject such del'umlaut or deft'ndagts to the penalties inllicted by I his act. unless lie, shi or they can prove to tlm satistle'mliol of' the jury, that lie, she or they have taken the oath hereaftel' re- quired, anl have rot Tiolated the saei; and that lie, she or they have removed tvom atny othitr state or territory of the United States, and have become a permanent resident of this state ; or that he, she or they, having been residents of tiffs state, acquired or derivied title to the slave or slaves in question, by marriage. descent, or evist made to them ; and that at the time such title acercd, by mnarria.ll, de-

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