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An Act amendatory to the several acts for apprehending and securing runaways. 1822 37 (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0340 and id is 1 raw text is: 1i~t~worl~e'cntz har f the Gin.oiwvalth. belonging or ttached lhereuntn ; or any public building, public grounds or improvenfnts, or their appurtenances, or any property whatsoever real or personal, belonging-to the public;or eniplyeyit forlpublic uses, or belonging to any county, parish or town, or employed for the use of any county,' arish or town,' or belonging to any court house, church, meeting-house, or other house of pub- lic Worship, or employed for the use- of any of th.em, shall be deemed guilty of a wisden.eanor, and may be prosecuted and How Isupilitable. punished as in other cases of misdemeanor, at the common law; ffe.ers may he lilou dogood bOO1 e- and shall moreover be bound to his good behaviour, by the court i tavo oe. in which lie shall be convicted, for such time, and in such penal- - ties, as the said court may direct; Provided however, that nothing Proviso. herein contained, shall be construed to repeal any act or part of an act, of the General Assembly, made for the purpose of pre- scribing specific punishments, for any particular misdemeanor. - 2. And be it further enacted, That if any slave shall be con- Slaves guilty of' victed of any of the offences in this act, he or she so oftlendii such nfellues, how shall be punished by stripes at the discretion of the court, or of a magistrate of the county. 3. asnd be it further enacted, That if any slave, free negro or Punishinent of mulatto, shall attempt to ravish a white woman, married, maid, or slave, Iree negro, • • - • Ol ilmulatto, at- other, such otfender, his aiders and abettors, shall be adjudged Ortlldan toravist guilty of felony, and stufrer death as in other cases of felony, by whmte vlman. - hanging by the neck; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary notv thstanding. 4. 'his act shall be constantly given in charge to the grand Charge to grand juries of this commonwealth. julies. 5. This act shall be in force from the passage thereof. Concnieeient, CiIAPTEIMI 35.-At act tinieildltaO'y• to tile sev'eral act ' f illc.u.ith tm.- curing r'mumawapi, [Passed Pibmiairy 17th, I '.,1 1. Be it enacted by1 the (;eteraI .Issj..-rtahib,, -hat n', person who nlw,, srd fiall apil-C. may apprellend any r'unaiwy slavi ii the'state of o'0io,.Pennsyl- ili'nliig ril'aw1a) M in the states vania or Indiana, who may have eloped from any pel'SOn1 'esid- ,f (it, i,.i in within this coinmonwealth, and deliver such runaway slave vai,, or ludiais ciier to the owner thereot, or to the keeper of any of the puhlic jails within this state, shall be entitled to a reward of fifty doil- lars, and twenty cents per mile for travelling, from tile place where such runaway may be apprehended, to the residence of the owner, or the jail at which such runaway may be delivered. And in the states Ot any person who may in like manner apprehend any runawiy Maine, New- slave in either of the states of Maine, NewHampshire, Mass,,.I Ihunl heu3icas chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York or Vermont, oit, islllid, Coiecli. in either of the British Provinces, and deliver such runaway to cut, New-York, or the owner thereof residing within this coinmonwealth, or to the Vermont. keeper of any of the plubic jails of this state, shall be entitled to a reward of one hundred and twenty dollars. 2. Be itfurther enacted, That, for the better securing such re- Duties of justices, wards to the persons apprehending such runaway slaves, it shall belbre whom sniut be the duty of any justice of the peace within this commonwealth runaways may be before whom such runaway be brought, to.exaninelsucl evidence brought. as the taker-up nway offer, as.to the place Wh ere the slave was ap-

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