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An Act to encourage the reclamation of Slaves, escaping beyond the limits of the Slave Territories of the United States. 1857 202 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0085 and id is 1 raw text is: Sac. 8. If the Chief Justice shall fail to s1e for any such penalty within three months after the same shall have been incurred, any other person may sue therefor and recover one half thereof for his own use and the other for the use of the countv. Sizc. 9. And that this act take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 13th, 1858. CHAPTER 133. AN ACT to encourage the reclamation of Slaves, escaping heyond the limits of the Slave Territories of the United States. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the, State of Texas, That any person or persons capturing, or causing the capture of any slave or slaves who may have escaped be- yond the limits of the slave territory of the United States, and who rhall deliver such slave or slaves to the Sheriff of' Travis county, shall be entitled to receive from the Treasury of the State thirty-three and one-third per cent on the value of such slave or slaves. SEc. 2. That any person capturing a slave or slaves, as provided for in the first section of this act, shall after arriving within the limits of this State in the first organized county which le may reach, go before a Judge of the District Court, Chief Justice, Notary Public, or Clerk of the District or County Court, and make proof to the satisfaction of such of- ficer, by at least two witnesses, that the slave or slaves so cap- tured were taken beyond the limits of the slave territory of the United States ; whereupon such officer shall certify to tho fact of said proof, under his hand and seal, if he have one, and de- liver the same to the party so appearing before him. Upon ar- riving at the city of Austin, in th-e county of Travis, the captor shall deliver such slave or slaves to the Sheriff of said county, who shall without delay summon two free-holders, citizens of said county, to appraise such slave or slaves under oath, and

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