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Of runaway slaves. 1844-1845 1020 (1844)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0072 and id is 1 raw text is: COAe. 167.being a male, shall be under the age of twenty-one years; or, being a female, shall b, under the age of eighteen years; and the circuit court of the county, where the person emancipating the slaves resides, may, upon application of any inhabitant of the county, order the sheriff to distrain and sell so much of the personal or real estate of such person, as shall be sufficient for that purpose. To give slave Sec. 5. Every person emancipating a, slave, shall cause to fheact0al be delivered to him or her, a copy of the act of emancipation, emancipation. attested by the clerk, and the seal of the court in which the act was proved or acknowledged. Emancipation SEc. 6. When the emancipation has been by last will, the by will, copy how and by executor or administrator of the testator, shall cause to be whom deliver- delivered a copy, as is required in the last preceding section. cd. Fees of clerks SEc. 7. The clerk, making out and attesting such copies, for makingout shall receive the like fees as are allowed for attested copies such copies, andby whom in other cases, to be paid by the person emancipating, or his paid. or her executor or administrator. Taxesorlevies SEc. 8. When any sla-.-, emancipated by virtue of this act, mposed on shall neglect or refuse to pay any taxes or levies imposed by cipated, how law, and the collector shall not find property of such liberated and by whom paid. slave out of which to make such tax or levy, it shall be the duty of such collector to distrain and sell, of the goods and chattels of the person who shall have liberated such slave, if he be in his county, as much as will be sufficient to pay such tax or levy, as if the same had been assessed to such person himself.* * The third article of the act, entitled 1( An act concerning slaves, approved March 19, 1835, was not re-enacted. See the act concerning fraudulent conveyances. ARTICLE III. Of runaway 8laves. SFc. 1. Slave suspected of being a run- SEc. 6. Sheriff to advertise such runa- away may be taken before a way in newspaper, when. justice of the peace. 7. If owner do not appear in 12 2. Justice to grant such apprehen- months after advertisement, der a warrant to deliver the slave to be sold; notice of slave to the owner, when, sale, how given, &c. 3. To grant a warrant to deliver 8. Proceeds of sale, after deduct- such runaway to the keeper ing expenses, to be paid into of the county jail, when, the state treasury. 4. When and in what cases jus- 9. If owner proves property in tice to issue his warrant to such slave, to draw the mon- apprehend runaway slave. cy from the treasury, when. 5. Person committed to jail as a 10. Whatshallberequiredof claim- runaway, sheriff to advertise, ant before runaway shall be and how. delivered up to him. 1020 SLAVES.

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