...Territory now receive for similar services. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of an act entitled, "An act respecting fugitives from justice,...from the service of their masters," approved February 12, 1793, and the provisions of the act entitled "An act to amend and supplementary to the aforesaid...

...twenty-three or twenty-four yeais of age. It is therefore ordered, in pursuance of an act of Congress, entitled an act to amend and supplementary to the...respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from their masters ; approved February 12th, 1793, that the matters so proved and set forth be entered on...

...resolved itself into a committee of the Whole, Mr. П. Ле/wn in the chair, on the bill «* to amend an act, entitled an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their master«. The bHl is one of considerable importance to the holders of slave property particularly,...

...arising under the act of congress, passed twelfth of February, seventeen hundred and ninety three, entitled, " an act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters." See, 2. No magistrate of a county, or city, or town corporate, judge or justice of the peace, or other...

...under section three of an act of congress, passed February twelfth, seventeen hundred and ninety three, entitled 'an act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters,' to any person claiming any other person as a fugitive slave in this State. "Sec. 2. No sheriff, deputy...

...consider the amendment of the House of Representatives to the bill sent from the Senate for concurrence, entitled ''An act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters," and agreed to the amendment, to wit : To strike out the word " deemed," in section first. Ordered,...

...(Const. Art. 4, sec. 2.) On the 12th day of February, 1793 (Stat. 1793, chap. 7), there was approved " An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." This is the law which, for over half a century, has prescribed the modes in which a runaway slave may...

...to call up. It was for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the propriety of amending the act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. The resolution was agreed to, and a committee was appointed of Messrs. MURRAY, COOPER, and KITTEHA....

...eighteenth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An act to amend, and supplementary to, the art entitled ' An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of iheir masters,' " approved February twelfth, seventeen hundred and ninety-three. Sec. 6. And be it...

..." Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire if any, and what, alterations are necetwary in the act, entitled " An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from their masters." The resolution was ordered to lie on the table. The SPEAKER laid before the House a...