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An Ordinance to provide for certain amendments to the Constitution, and for emancipation of slaves. 1863 701 (1863)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0252 and id is 1 raw text is: CONVENTION ORDINANCES. APPROPRIATION OF MONEY. AN ORDINANCE to defray the expenses of the Convention. Be it ordained by the People of the State of Missouri in Convention assembled, as follows, to wit: That the sum of fourteen thousand dollars be and is hereby appropria- ted out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pay and mileage of members and officers of this Convention, and to defray the contingent expenses thereof. Adopted June 23, 1863. R. WILSON, Attest: SAM'L A. LOWE, President of Convention. Secretary of Convention. EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES. AN ORDINANCE to provide for certain amendments to the Constitution, and for eman- cipation of slaves. . Be it ordained by the People of the State of Missouri in Convention assembled : § 1. The first and second clauses of the twenty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution are hereby abrogated. § 2. That slavery and involuntary servitude, except for the punish- ment of crime, shall cease to exist in Missouri on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy; and all slaves within the State at that day are hereby declared to be free; provided, however, that all persons eman- cipated by this ordinance shall remain under the control and be subject to the authority of their late owners, representatives and assigns, as servants, during the following period, to wit: those over forty years of age, for and during their lives ; those under twelve years of age, until they arrive at the age of twenty-three years; and those of all other ages, until the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. The persons or their legal representatives, who, up to the moment of emancipation, were the owners of the slaves thereby freed, shall, during the period for which the services of such freed men are reserved to them, have the same author- ity and control over the said freed men, for the purpose of securing the possession and services of the same, that are now held absolutely by the master in respect of his slave; provided, however, that after the said fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, no person so held to service shall be sold to a non-resident of, or removed from the State of Missouri, by the authority of his late owner, or his legal representatives. § 3. That all slaves hereafter brought into this State, and not now belonging to citizens of this State, shall thereupon be free. 701

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