 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon, United States Capitol Historical Society - 2000 - 357 páginas
...February 5, 1793, after a brief debate the day before merely noted in the Annals: the four-section "Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters," which was signed into law a week later by President George Washington.57 The legislative history of... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 páginas
...Enforcement (Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1975). 4. "Document 31: An act to amend, and supplementary t0, the act entitled 'An act respecting fugitives from...persons escaping from the service of their masters,' approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three" reprinted in Civil Rights and... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 316 páginas
...gradual abolition acts of Rhode Island and Connecticut, both passed in 1784, had similar provisions. 5. "An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters," Act of February 12, 1793, in US Statutes at Large, 1:302 (hereinafter cited as Act of 1 793). William... | |
 | the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - 2002 - 486 páginas
...appointing one committee without result, appointed another in November 1791, authori2ing it to draft a bill "respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." Four weeks later, William Johnston of North Carolina presented the committee's handiwork, which, after... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 páginas
...Thirty-First Congress — Sess. I, Chap. 60, 1850. Sept. 18, 1850 AN ACT to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled, "An Act respecting Fugitives from...Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters," approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - 2006 - 257 páginas
...of them, depends exclusively upon their own particular laws An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled "An Act respecting Fugitives from...Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters," approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. Be it enacted by the Senate... | |
 | Martin Robison Delany - 2003 - 526 páginas
...therefore, we insert the Bill alone, with explanations following: — AN ACT TO AMEND, AND SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE ACT, ENTITLED, "AN ACT RESPECTING FUGITIVES FROM...PERSONS ESCAPING FROM THE SERVICE OF THEIR MASTERS, APPROVED FEBRUARY 12, 1793. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 2003 - 708 páginas
...probable cause. Ib. By the act of Sept. 18, 1850, entitled "An act to amend and supplementary to ' An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters,' approved Febuary twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three," it is provided : " Sec. 1.... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2004 - 384 páginas
...law impairing the obligation of contracts''' (art. 1, sec. 10, para. i). The result of his efforts ("An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Service of their Masters" [1850]) reads, consequently, like freelabor contract, like lapsed free-labor contract: And be it further... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 páginas
...it adopted without recorded debate, on a vote of forty-eight to seven, the Senate bill that became "an Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." The issue would not be visited again for more than half a century. It is worth mentioning two of the... | |
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