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An Act to prevent abuses in taking up slaves as runaways. 1851-1852 120 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0159 and id is 1 raw text is: 120 CHAPTER XCVII. AN ACT to prevent abuses in taking up slaves as runaways. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That no slave in any city or incor- porated town, going at large in the vicinity of the resi- dence of the owner or rightful possessor of such slave, shall be committed to prison as a runaway. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the police officers of towns and cities shall not take up or detain as a runaway, nor shall any magistrate commit as a runaway, any slave found-going at large within such town. or city, when the master or rightful possessor of such slave re- sides in such town or city. SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That in case any slave be found by persons on patrol, or by the police of towns or cities, going at large without a pass or permit from the mas- ter or rightful possessor, and without being able to give a reasonable account of himself, the patrol or police officer, so finding such slave, shall detain him or her in some safe place of custody, but not in the county jail, and shall post up at the watch station, or head quarters of such police, a notice of such detention, and on ap- plication of the owner or possessor of such slave, shall deliver the same to him, on payment of the sum of one dollar. Provided, Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the police authority or town constables of any incorporated town in this State from arresting or taking up any slave who shall be guilty of violating the laws of said corporation by disorderly conduct, for which he is now subject. SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That persons arresting runaway slaves from other States shall have twenty-five dollars therefor, instead of five, as now allowed by law. JORDAN STOKES. Speaker of the Rouse of Representatives. M. R. HILL, Speaker of the Senate. Passed, February 10, 1852. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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