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An Act to provide more effectually against the offence of harboring Negro or other slaves. 1821 20 (1821)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0116 and id is 1 raw text is: D-ec.1821. shall be made up on the said suggestion, and the same / - shall be tried by a jury: And should the jury by their verdict iind the said confession to be fraudulent, the judge shall order the said confession to be set aside. And be it further enacted, That the following and no other fees shall be charged on any judgment so confessed as aforesaid: To the attorney or clerk; for issuing the execution, the same fees which are now allowed by law. To the clerk, for all other services in relation to the said confessed judg- ment, if the same be for less than fifty dollars, one dollar; if more than fifty dollars, two dollars. In the Senate ouse, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hurulr ?d and twenty-one, and in the forty- sixth year of the Independence of te United States ofdmerica. BENJAMIN HUGER, President of the Sehate. PATICK NOBLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. .An ACT to provide more efectually against the ofence of harhoring Negro or other slaves. B E it enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of ) Representatives, now met and sitting in General .dAsembly, and by the authority of the same, I hat if Any white person shall harbor, conceal or entertain any'runa way or fugitive slav :, such person shall be liable to be indicted for a misdemeanor, or prosecuted in a civil action for damages, at the election of the owner or person injured: and in case any person, being indicted, shall be convicted of said offence, such person shall be fined and imprisoned at the discretion of the court, no exceeding one thousefd dollars fine, nor one year's imprionment. And be it firther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any free negro, mulatto or mustizo, shall harbor, conceal or entertain any fugitive or runaway slave, and be convicted thereof, before two justices and five freeholders, he shall suffer such corporeIl punnishment, not extending to life or limb, as the said justices ano freeholders, who try such offender, shall in their discretion think fit. Asi the Senate House, the twoentieth (lay of December, in the year qf our Lord, one thousand eiqht hundred and twenty-one, and in the forty- :ixth year of the Independence of the United States of Amoerica. BENJAMIN HUGER, President of the Senate. PATIUCK NOBLE, Spetker of the House of Rrtesentatives.

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