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Scott v. Negro Ben U.S. 3 (1810)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0019 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPREME COURT U S FEBRUARY TERM, 181o. SCOTT v. NEGRO BEN. SCOTT V. 'ERROR to the judgment of the circuit court for The right to the district of Columbia, sitting at Washington, freedom, un- o er the act upon a petition for freedom filed, by Negro Ben,of Maryland against Sabrett Scott, who claimed the petitioner as which prohi- his sla've.bits the brig hiUs slave, ng of r.11a .%e into.that sin~e, is nfotlacquii5! The ground upon which the petitioner claimed his by the neglect freedom was, that he had been imported into the state of the master of Maryland contrary to the act of assembly of that toprove.tothe sati~taction 2,r state, passed in the year, 1783, entitled, An act to the nalaL ofi. prohibit the bringing of slaves into this state; by cer, orcoltector of the tax, that which it is enacted, That it- shall not be lawful, such.a9ure had after the passing this act, to import or bring into this resded three th ears zn the state, by land or water, any negro, mulatto or other Urnited States, slave, for sale, or tq reside within'this state, and although such proof be re- any person brought into this state as a slave con- qred by the trary to this act, if a slave before, shall thereupon act, immediately cease to be a slave, and shall oe free, provwded.that this act shall not prohibit any person, being a citizen of some one of the United States, coming into this state with a bonafide intention of settling therein, and who shall actually reside within this state for one year at least, to be computed from

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