...crimes therein specified," approved January thirtieth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine : " An act respecting fugitives .from justice, and persons escaping from the service of iheir masters," approved twelfth February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three : " An Vol....

...service or labor ;" and the same care is observable iu the Act of Congress dated February 12th, 1793, " respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." In point of fact, the grand principle, that the property of man in man cannot exist de jure, had been...

...service or labor ;" and the same care is observable in the Act of Congress dated February 12th, 1793, " respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." In point of fact, the grand principle, that the property of man in man cannot exist de jure, had been...

...the commonwealth from taking cognizance of any case under the Act of Congress of February 12, 1793, entitled " An Act respecting fugitives from justice...persons escaping from the service of their masters ;'' and also prohibits any sheriff, constable, &c. from arresting, or detaining in any jail or other...

...February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. [Prigg ». The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.] entitled "An act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters ;" nor shall any alderman or justice of the peace of this commonwealth issue or grant any certificate...

...special verdict; and referring to the provisions of the act of Congress of the 12th of February, 1793, respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters, and to the several sections of the Pennsylvania law of the 25th of March, 1826, which had given rise...

...reference to this event. Aar. VIII. — THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. 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. AMONG the measures passed toward the close of the late session of Congress,...

...limits, between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty. — Laws of Florida, p. 111. An act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters. — Story's Laws of the US, v. l,p.284. An act to prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records...

...Congress, and known as the "Compromise" or " Peace" measures— which after lumbering in the Seriate for months in the shape of an omnibus, were at length...phraseology of the Constitution of the United States, which says, (Art. IV. Sec. 2.) "No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof,...

...WAsHINGToN. Nor has it, as the committee are informed, ever been proposed in Congress to repeal it. It is "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." The third section provides that when any person held to labor in any of the states, under their laws,...