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Constitution of Mississippi (with regard to slaves). 1839 455 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0180 and id is 1 raw text is: CONSTITUTION. Sec. 17. No new county shall be established by the legislature, which shall reduce the county or counties, or either of them, from which it may be taken, to less contents than five hundred and seventy-six square miles; nor shall any new county be laid off, of less contents. Sec. 18. The legislature shall have power to admit to all the rights and privileges of free white citizens of this state, all such persons of the Choctaw and Chick- asaw tribes of Indians, as shall choose to remain in this state, upon such terms as the legislature may from time to time deem proper. SLAVES. Sec. 1. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the con- sent of their owners, unless where the slave shall have rendered to the state some distinguished service; in which case, the owner shall be paid a full equivalent for the slave so emancipated. They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to this state from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States, so long as any person of the same age or description shall be contin- ued in slavery by the laws of this state: Provided, that such person or slave be the bona fide property of such emigrants: And provided, also, that laws may be pass- ed to prohibit the introduction into this state of slaves who may have committed high crimes in other states. They shall have power to pass laws to permit the ow- ners of slaves to emancipate them, saving the rights of creditors, and preventing them from becoming a public charge. They shall have full power to oblige the ow- ners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary clothing and provisions, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb, and 455

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