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An Act more effectually to prevent free negroes and other persons of color from entering into this State, and for other purposes. 1835 34 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0274 and id is 1 raw text is: 34: DEC. 1835. the use and benefit of all persons holding shares in the said corpo, ko - ration, at the time of its dissolution, and their legal assigns and rep. resentatives, in average and proportion to the number or amount of said shares. SEC. 24. That the said Bank shall not be authorized to issue buils nder the denomination of five dollars. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eig-ht hundred and thirt!.Jive, and the the sixtieth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of ihe United States of America. H. DE AS, President of the Senate. PATRICK NOBLE, Speaker of the Ilouse of Representatives. CHAPTER X. AN Ac onrE EFrECTUALLY TO PRUVENT FREE NEaRs AND OTHER PRasoNs or COLOR FROM ENTERING INTO THIS STATE, AND FOR OTHERm PURPOSES. Prohiibitina SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- their entrance tatives, noo met and sitting in general Assembly, and by the author. into tis State' ity of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall not be lawful for any Free Negro or Person of Color to migrate into this State, or be brought or introduced into its limits, under any pre. text whatever, by land or by water; and in case any Free Negro or Person of Color, (not being a seaman on board any vessel arriving in this State,) shall migrate into or be introduced into this State con- trary to this act, it shall and may be lawful for any white person to reize and carry him or her before any magistrate of the District or Parish where lie or she may be taken, and it shall be the duty of the Sheriff or any Constable in the Parish or District in which said, en. Inoty oofficers try shall be made, and of the City Marshals in the City of Charles. o infouna' ton, should the entry be made in Charleston, upon information of the migration or introduction of any such Free Negro or Person of Co. lor, to arrest and bring before some magistrate of the District or Par. ish where the said Free Negro or Person of Color shall be taken; which magistrate is by this act empowered to commit to prison, or at his discretion to hold to bail such Free Negro or Person of Color, and to summon three freeholders and form a court as the law directs for the trial of Persons of Color, and examine such Free Negro or Person of Color within six days after his or lier arrest,'and on con- viction to order him or her to leave the State, and to commit such Free Negro or Persone of Color so convicted to close prison until such time as he or she can leave the State ; or to release him or her on sufficient bail for any time not exceeding fifteen days, at the dis- pretion of the magistrate. And every Free Negro or Person of Co. lor, so bailed, and ordered to leave the State as aforesaid, who shall not jave left the State within the time for which he or she shall have

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