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An Act to provide for the safe keeping of runaway Negroes taken up within the Indian nations in this state, and other purposes. 1819 70 (1819)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0041 and id is 1 raw text is: that the fees now allowed by law to the chiefjustice of the orphan's court of said county, shall be collect- ed by the clerk of said county court, and paid quar- ter yearly into the county treasury for county pur- poses. E. TURNER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. D. STEWART, 'Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, the 20th day of February, 1819. DAVID HOLMES, Governor of the State of Aississippi. AN ACT To provide for the safe keeping of runaway Negroes taken up within the Indian nations in this state, and other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of M1ississippi in General Assenibly convened, That from, and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for any Indian agent within this state to re- Fee for ceive the sum of thirty dollars for each runaway ne- tasilvniUp gro taken up within their respective agencies, to be runaways paid by the master or owner of such negro, fifteen nations. dollars of which sum shall be paid by said agent to the person taking up the same, and the balance to be retained and expended, as the agents may think pro- per, in building a jail or procuring irons for the con- finement or better security of all rnnaway negroes taken up within their respective agencies, and there shall be allowed for the daily subsistance of each ne- gro the sum of fifty cents. Agents to Sec. 2. Jnd be it further enacted, That the Indian an tre- agents within this state, shall report to the governor (eived, annually the amount received for runaway negroes,

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