...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, 1793Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...

...respecting the slave trade from the United States to any foreign place or country — and the laws respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters, to the Committee appointed on the 12th day of December last, to take into consideration the laws of...

...West Indies. Several attempts to amend the fugitive slave law failed in the early national period. An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. . . . Section 3. And be it also enacted, That when a person held to labor in any of the United States,...

...Enforcement (Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1975). 76. "Document 31: 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 ninetythree," reprint in Albert P. Blaustein...

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...Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to introduce and vote for a bill to repeal an act entitled " an act respecting fugitives from justice...persons escaping from the service of their masters ; and, failing in that, for such a modification of it as shall secure the right of habeas corpus and...

...United States or Territories, under a certain Act of Congress, passed on the 12th day of February, 1793, entitled "An Act respecting fugitives from justice...persons escaping from the service of their masters"; nor shall any such Judge, Alderman, or Justice of the Peace issue or grant any certificate or warrant...

...compromise contained one extraordinary and particularly painful provision, an amendment to the 1793 Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Service of Their Masters. A stringent new fugitive slave law. Under this law, any person — black or white — could be deputized...

...provides examples of the sweeping nature of the statute: "Chap. LX- An Act to Amend, and Supplementary to the Act Entitled "An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Services of their Masters," approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three....

...September 18, 1850, Congress, responding to this pressure, passed "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 ninety-three/ "m The 1850 Act was an attempt...