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An Act concerning free persons of colour, and for other purposes. 1831 121 (1831)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0073 and id is 1 raw text is: SLAVES. J21 for trial at the first term of the county court thereafter, under the same rules, regulationi and restrictions as if the said suit had been originally instituted in said county court; Provided, however, that the costs which shall or may have accrued shall abide the final issue of the suit. F. W. HULING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 13URCIET DOUGLASS, November 28, 1831. Speaker of the Scnate. CHAPTER CII. An Act concerning free persons of colour, and for other purposes. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State oJ Tennessee, That it shall not be lawful for any free Noperminatdto person or persons of colour, whether he, she or they be emigrate to tis born frec or emancipated agreeably to the laws in force F,Jngoi and use, either now or atany other timein any State with- in the United States, or elsewhere, to remove him, her or themselves to this State to reside therein, and remain therein twenty days; and if any such free person or per- sons of colour shall presurne or attempt to reside therein, contrary to the provisionsoflthis act, every such person or persons of colou. r shall be liable to be indicted before the grand jury of the county or circuit court of the coun- ty where he, she or they may at empt to reside, and if convicted shall he fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, to the use of the county, and shll: I moreover, he sentenced to hard labor in the Peni- tentiary for a term not less than one year nor more than two years, the term of service to be fixed by the judge; and if any such free person or persons of colour as afore- said, shall fail or refuse to remove him, her or themselves from this 'tate,within thirty days after his, her or their discharge from the Penitentiary, unless detained by sickness, or some unavoidable accident, such person or .persons shall again be liable to indictment as before, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to labor in the Peni- tentiary for a term double the longest term before men- tioned, but shall not be liable to any pecuniary fine, as in the first instance is provided. SEC. 2. Be i enacted, That it shall not be lawful, from and after the passage of this act, for any court or any siaves not 0 owner, or owners of any slave or slaves, to emancipate oninpAIte lou any slave or slaves,Cxcept on the express condition, that the State. such slave or slaves shall be immediately removed from this State, and every person or persons so desiring to e- mancip;ite any slave or slaves. shall, before such emanci- Digitized from Best Copy Available

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