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An Act to provide for the peace and security of this State. 1859 768 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0428 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 159. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PEACE AND SECURITY O THIS STATE. No. 4446. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and I-louse of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That if Dookn or writ. any person or persons within this State shall, with evil intent, write, print, Ing calculated to dsffn r paint, draw, engrave, or cause or procure to be written, printed, painted, penalties. drawn or engraved, any letter, book, essay, pamphlet, newspaper, words or word, picture, figure or cypher whatsoever, calculated to disaffect any slave or slaves in this State, or tending to incite any insurrection or disturbance among the same, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a high misdomeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined and imprisoned in the discre- tion of the Court before which such conviction shall have taken place, and in addition thereto, may be required by the said Court to enter into recogni- zance with sufficient sureties for future good behavior; and, if a free person of color, shall, in addition, suffer such corporal punishment as a Court of Magistrates and Freeholders may, in their judgment, think proper to inflict. II. If any white person, or any free person of color, shall, with evil A high misde- intent, publish, circulate, distribute, vend or give, or cause or procure to be moanior to cl.cu- lato. published, circulated, distributed, vendd or given, any matter in the fore- going section mentioned, whether the same shall have been written, printed, painted, drawn or engraved in this State or elsewhere, such person or per- sons shall, on conviction, be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall suffer the same penalties as are respectively set forth and provided iii the first section of this Act. III. That if any white person, or free person of color, shall with evil Soditious lan. intent, utter, speak, repeat, recite or rehearse any language, phrase, words gunge. or word calculated to disaffect any slave or slaves in this State, or tending to incite insurrection or disturbance among the said slaves; such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and suffer the penal- ties respectively set forth and provided for in the first section of this Act. IV. That if any white person, or free person of color, in this State, shall Subscriptions. contribute or subscribe to, or receive any newspaper, book, periodical, pain- phlet, or other printed, painted or engraved paper, picture or representation of any kind whatsoever, whether published within or without this State, which is calculated to disaffect any slave or slaves in this State, and such contribution or subscription to, or receiving of the same, shall be done by such person or persons with a view to distribute, circulate, vend or give the same with evil intent, such person or persons, on conviction, shall suffer the same penalties as are respectively set forth and prescribed in the first section of this Act. Postmaster to V. That if any Postmaster or Deputy Postmaster, or clerk of Postmaster tifr a in this State shall know that such matter as is mentioned in the first section 768

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