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rights, remedies and proceedings, fines and penalties, accrued,
commenced or incurred, before tile. commencement of this act,
qhali be and remain in the same condition as if this act had never
been passed.
24. This Act shall commence and be in force from antd after the C,,,,wcme,,.
first day of January next.
I
CHAPTER 1M1.
Atz .Iet reducing-, into one all A/cts an(d parts of .dets, povoiding'. a
method to help and speed Iloor 1ersous in their Sails.
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1. Be it enacted by the General qsscnibly1, That every poor per- i,.r,',, to tie
So, who shall have case ol actiolni ,alist any person vithinu this nhllo, I iigmzidih
Commonwealth, Shall have, by tile direction 'of lhe court he I're ib'''t i31
whom lie would site, writ or writs orig;inal, ard wris of slbpm na,
according to the niatu ire of hilk ca se, on thi i11 parying lbr the sin(-
2. The said court so:i:ii direct fimi cleri to issi'. Ile h tecit, ssClar (wirt it :ut1'n thma
proicess. shall assigni bir. counsel, learned in the laws, (I a pimi t .I. i
ill other ollieers ret llisile atlld itcessa y to he ha rid for the Iq '
of the said suit to [;e lad and illade, who shall do their doties
witlit ally ireward for theirl COLiSCIs, help and bosiness ill tie
S. All and ever y sitc]] poor person 0 1 person I h, liiig plintifl or ,,,r ...... L,,,l,-
plfintilFi in alny such actioi or st it so admi tted by tIn. court, shall .li t- it ll,it
not he copelled to llay any costs.t III il
4. Wheii any persot shil i conceivC hiiself Or herself M illegally amniy qk,, to '.
detained as a Slave il tle possessio ofanother, it s;hall and lay
lie aw 'tiI l i sd ~ i ~ i (i li it t i~e it linIItnd i a l. ;ti II g lii laii.-
be lawll 161' Stich person to ma ke complaint Ihee'co , either to a elli ll sil.
nagistrate out of court, or to the Superior C-i:i't of Lw fur t e
conlity, or the court ofi te coillitv or corlprati (i where lie or site
shall reside, and not elsewhere..' When the Complaint sliall be wI,: ,!mll I r,,Lo
made to a magistrate o1 such illegal d eten tion, it shall lie the dity ... I ,.i,,Z
of the said inaistrate, forthwith, to issue his warrintt sutiliiiino iL..
the owner Or possesSol ofSlih Complinat, to ipiwaii before it
or some other 1angistrate of tile Cmity, to aisiverI lhe coI iipl:iit
so made, and, upol his a ppeara nice, hall compel hii to give hoiad
with. s-riu'ity, equal it least to tli e full vallie of such conimplaina t,
conditioned that le shall stiller hint or her to appear at the ftfexl,
Sperior Court of .Law, or coi't of the county ni orlpuatina
wherein lie or site resides, br v tile ll,'p se of pei)oitiolil, le f il
court to Ile allowed to sun thereill in for'nt paiUiet-isn, In' (Ile reTCO
very of his or her' freedmn ; and, if such master or holie Shall
fiil or de ny to give security is a iesaiid. such tai;i:trate shall
order the co 01 nn lainait into'tolue costody of the officer sei'vin.- tll
warrait, to be kept by him salbly, at the expence ol such ntster
or holder, until the sitting of the'liist court that shall happeu alter
such judgment by him given, and produce him or her before such
cotirt.I
5. vhen a pelitionr shall be ofliered to any Superior Court of'.t.r proee li,;
Law, or to tile cou rt of arty counlity or corporation, by any person .t ii, pr;. , I
or' persons so complailiing', it sliall state the material facts o tl ;)a tdie . 'lt.
Case, which being proved by ffiidavit o otherwi:' , to ihe satislhc-
i I It.C, Ch. 126, 11.
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