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An Act to amend the 4th section of chapter 105 of the Code so as to increase the rewards for the arrest of runaway slaves. 1855 43 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0712 and id is 1 raw text is: SLAVES AND FREE NEGROES. lead to the conviction of a free whito person engaged in carrying off' or attempting to carry off a slave, or in any manuner concerned in aiding or persuading a slave to escape or attempt to escapo, shall e entitled to a reward of five hundred dollars; to be paid by tile state on tile order of tile court convicting tile party of such offleuse: provided such conviction he procured by other testimony than that of the informer; or if such testimony be used upon the trial, that the same shall be sue- tained by other corroborating facts or circumstances, to be certified by said court. § 2 . Ift any owner or keeper of a ferry or bridgo across a water Pealty for at. course separating this from nuother state, knowingly permit a slave to lawie, slave to pass at such ferry or bridge without the consent of his master, he shall frr stoanutaer pay to tile party injured fifty dollars and all damages occasioned there- state. by; and if tile slave, by so passing, escape, such owner or keeper shall moreover be confined in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten yours. 2. But no whippiug provided for by this act shall in any case exceed t0irty-nino lashes in any one day. 3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement ChAp. 49,-An ACT to amend the 4th section of chapter 103 of tle Code so as to increase the rewardi for the arrest of runaway slaves. Passed March 17, 1856. 1. Be it enacted by the general assombly, that the folurth section Of Code . 441. chapter one hundred and five of tile Code of Virginia be and the same is hereby re-enacted so as to road as follows: 11§ 4. Every person wvho may arrest it runaway slave, andi deliver Reoward for such slave to the owner or his agent, or to soine jailor at hi jail, witi arrest of thle certificate of a justice in the manner herein provided, shall be enti- runaway. tied to demand of such owner, or of the fiduciary havitg charge of the estate to which such slave belongs, a reward therefor; that is to say, if such slave be arrested in this stato, except in the counties herein after specially provided for, and within fifty miles of his residence, a reward of five dollars; or if more than fifty miles, tenl dollars; antd if in any other slavehnlding state, excepting tile portion of Marylad herein after oxcepted, if within fifty miles of his residence, twenty, anti if more than fifty miles, thirty dollars. And in every case, .the person making tile Mileage allowed. arrest and delivery shall be allowed mileago, at the rate of tei ents a mile, for necessary travel from the place of arrest. The hirer of any slavo shall not be liable for the payment of any reward allowed by this section, unless such runniug away was caused by the had treatment of the hirer, or otherwise by his act or procurement; and in that event, tie hirer shall pay to the owner the whole of such reward, and expenses of apprehending such slave. . Atd iwhenever any slave is arrested in the counties of Alleghany, if arrest be in Washington and Frederick, in tle state of Maryland, as now hotlmdod Alleehiany, ant atae \Va~lnigton and and establishod, escaping nouslaveholding state, tile personI making Frctrkn, tile arrest of such slave, and delivering him to the owner or his agent, Ataryland. or to the jailor of any county of this commonwealth, shall ie entitled to demad of tile owner of such slave, or the fiduciary having charge of the estate to which such slave may belong, a reward of fifteetn per conture on tie value of such fugitive slave. 3. And whenever any slave is arrested iti any nonslaveholding stato, If in a nonstave. the person making such arrest, and delivering such slave to tile owner or holding ate. agent thereof, or to the jailor of ny county in this comt notwoalth, shall be entitled to demand of the owner, or the fiduciary having cottrol of such slave, a roward of twenty-five per cettur on tile vulue of such fugitive slave. 4. Atid whenever any runaway slave seeking to escape to a non- if county on slavcholding state, is arrested in any of the coutities of this state, which the Oio river or are houtded by the Ohio river, or by the division line between Peunsyl- Potomac be- t wen certain vania and Virginia, or by tile Potomac rivet, above the division line he- points. twqci tile counties of Fairfax and Prince William, the person makin

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