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An Act to restrain the emancipation of Slaves, and to prevent free persons of colour from entering into this State, and for other purposes. 1820 22 (1820)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0112 and id is 1 raw text is: Pec. 182. An ACT to restrain the emancipation oj' Slaves, and to /Y%.d present free persons of colour from entering into this State, and for other purposes. W HEREAS the great and rapid increase of free negroes and mulattoes in this State, by migration and emancipyition, readers it expedient and necessary for the legislature to restrain the emancipation of slaves, and to prevent free persons of colour from entering into this State : BE it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and No slave to House of Rpresentatives, no'w nwvt and sitting in general pated butby assembly, That no slave shall hereafter be emancipated, act of the le- but by act of the legislature. gislature. Be it further enacted by the authorily aforesaid, That No free ne- from and after the first day of March next, it shall not be gro or mu: lawful for any 1'ree negro or iuLitto to migrate intu this nat nto State; and every free negro Or mulatto, who shall migrate this state. into this State, contrary to this act, shall and may be apprehended and carried, by any white person, before some justice of th, peace of the district or parish where he or she shall be taken ; which justice is hereby autho- rized and required to examine such frLe negro or mulatto, and to order him or her to leave.this State. And every free negro or inulatto, so ordered to leave the state, and ,thereafter rm:avining longer than fifteen days within the same, or having left the Statc, and thereafter returning to this State, (unless it be in consequence of shipw reck, or some unavoidable accident, or as a seaman 3n board or belonging to a vessel, with which he shall depart, or as a servant to ny vIhite person travelling into this State,) upon proof thered, made before any magistrate and three freeholders, and oi conviction thereof, shall be subjected to a fine of twenty dallars ; and in default of the payment thereof, shall he publicly sold after ten days notice, for a term of time not exceldihg five years ; and if sICh free negro, mulatto or mustizo, shall be found in this State, after the lapse of ten days, after paying such fine or after such servitude under such sale, he, she or they shall be liable to be proceeded against in like manner, and shall be sold for the like sum and for a term not exceecding five years, until such slave or slaves shall depart the said State. Be it firther enacted by the authorit oforesaid, That Fenaltv for every master of a vessel or other person, who shall bring bringing into this State, by water or by land, in any vessel or land to iesons carriage, or other wise, any free negro or mulatto, shall ltate. forfeit and pay, for every such free nerro or mulatto, so brought, the penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recoy-

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