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An Act to prevent Negro slaves, and other persons of colour, from being brought into, or entering this State. 1800 31 (1800)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0037 and id is 1 raw text is: 186o.) A6ds. 31 thorit) of the ine, That the kcepcrs of gaols in the feveral diftrials throughout this fiate, be, and they are required and diretted to receive K cepe-s of eiegatolI. - Ceir- into their feveral and rcf'pcdive gaols, all fuch prifoners as Ihall be com- cd to rccei'c mitted to fuch gaols, or any of them, relpettively, under the authority ofuid fanfe keep the United States; and there to kecp in fafe cuftody all fuch prifoners, pribners. which are or fhall be fo committed, until they fhall be diflchaiged by 'due courfe of the laws of the United States, under the like penalties as in cafe of prifoners committed under the authority of this flate, and upon the terms cxprc'ff'ed in the refolution of congress aforcfaid. And he it enaP ed.by the authority aforefaid, That every fheriff fhall shiffs to provide, at the expcnf'e of the flate, a- fufficient number of blankets provide bl- Tor the ufe of the prifoners confined in their refpcEivc gaols; and that kets for pri- -every prifoner fo confined, on a criminal charge, fhall be furnifhedoners :vith at leaft two blankets during the winter f eafon. In the Senate-Hionfe, the twentieth dqy of December, in the year of our Lord, one thoufawd eight hundred, and in the twenty- jfth year of .the Ina'ependence of the United States of .JOHN WARD, Prefident of the Senate. THEODORE GAILLARD, .Speaker of the Honfe of Reprefentatives. An ACT to prevent'Negro flaves, and other perons of colour, from being brought into, or entering this fate. E it enafled by the honorable the Senate and Hoife of Reprefenta- tives, now met andfitting in Gencral 4ffeibly, and by the autho- No perron to 11.1 bring into tis rily of the fune, That it Ihall not be lawful, at any time after the paff- tnu ing of this adt, for any perfon or perfons to bring into this flate, either or cervant of by land or water (except as is herein after excepted) any negro, mulat-.colourexcept, &C. to, meftizo, or other.flave, or fervant of colour, for fale within this flate, .or to be kept therein; nor fhall it be lawful for any free negro, mulatto or meftizo, any time after the palling of this ad, to enter into this flate: Nolreeniegro mulatto, or And every fuch perfon of colour as aforefiid, being a flave, or bound neflizo, al. to fervice for a term of years, or free, who fliall be fent or brought into lowed to coliC Volullta. this flate, or fhall enter and come into the fame, contrary to this a., rily into this .Ihall and may be apprehended, and taken bcfbre a juflice of the peace, flate. H within

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