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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0561 and id is 1 raw text is: 82 Fugitives from Justice.--Runaways.-Slaves, Free Negroes, ic.
circuit superior court of law and chancery for any county or corpo-
ration in the commonwealth, and shall be safely kept by him, in his
Fee therofor. office. For taking every such bond, he shall demand and have a fee of
one dollar, to be paid at tile time, by the person executing the same.
Prooforresidence 11. Be it further enacted, That in all questions as to residence and
Rill citizenship)
.pwlWom to citizenship, arising under this act, the onus probandi shall rest upon
resl. the person claiming to be a citizen and resident of this common-
wealth, or any state other than New York.
Commencement. 12. Be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and he
in force from and after tile first day of May, eighteen hundred nnd
Act how and forty-two; but that tile governor of this commonwealth may, by pro-
when to be us- clanatior,, suspend the operation of the same, until the end of tile
pee. succeeding session ot the legislature of this state, whenever he shall
be officially informed that the executivc of New York shall have bona
fide consented to comply with tile demand of the executive of this
state, for the surrender of Peter Johnson, Edward Smith and Isaac
Gansey, as fugitives from justice, and that the law of New York of
the sixth of May, eighteen hundred and forty, entitled an act to ex-
tend the right of trial by jury, has been repealed by that state.
CHAP. 73.-An ACT increasing the rewar'l for apprehending runaways in
cerlain cases.
(Passed February 10, 1M1.1
acwvard rr ap- 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That any person who
irn,Inlg rtiu- shall apprehend any runaway male slave above the age of sixteen years
prtsof tha state. within this state, more than twenty miles from his usual place of abode,
and within ten miles of the dividing lines between this state and the
states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and that portion of the litie of the
state of Maryland, commencing at its intersection with the hue of
Pennsylvania on the west, and terminating at the point where the di-
viding line of the counties of Loudoun and Fairfax intersects said
line, shall be entitled to demand an,! recover of the owner of every
such slave or slaves, for each one so apprehended, the sum of thirty
dollars, besides tell cents for every mile of such distance, he shall ne-
cessarily convey such runaway, instead of tile compensation allowed
by tile first section of the act, entitled an act to reduce into one act
the several acts for apprehending and securing runaways, passed tile
iowrecoverable. ninth of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen, to be recovered
in tile manner prescribed by tile said act.
Commencement. 2. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof
CHAr. 74.-An ACT to amend the act reducing into one the several acts con-
cerning slaves, free negroes and mulattoes.
(I'assed March 13, 1841.]
Penalty fi,r tra- 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That so much of the
dit Wit slaves nineteenth section of the act, entitled an act reducing into one the
nster orever- several acts concerning slaves, free negroes and mulattoes, passed
426, I it. C. P. March the second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, as fixes the pecu.
4211, 19.
Penanity for thus niary penalty and forfeiture, at the sum of twenty dollars, and so much
tradbltgoo t of the twentieth section of said act, as fixes the additional penalty Ut
Ibid. % 20. ten dollars, for tile offences therein mentioned, be, and the same are
hereby so altered and amended as to make the said penalty in the
nineteenth section not less than five, nor more than twenty dollars;
and that in time twentieth section not less than five, nor more than ten
dollars, to be fixed at the discretion of the justice of the peace or the
jury before whom the same shall be tried, according to the provisions
of the said sections.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0561&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)