 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874
...of the attorney-general of the United States, before Congress ; and the result was the act of 1793, entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters." Thus, it appears, the very occasion of the passage of the act of 1793 was the enforcement of the legislation... | |
 | Robert M. Cover - Law - 1975 - 322 pages
...v. Van Zandt, 46 US (5 How.) 215 (1847), p. 230. Chapter 11 1 "An act to Amend and Supplementary to, the act entitled 'An Act respecting fugitives from...persons escaping from the service of their masters,' " 9 Stat. 462 (1850). For further information on the political background of the act, see the vast... | |
 | Maeva Marcus - History - 1985 - 800 pages
...in the name of the person who makes the seizure, or by information in the name of the United States. An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters1 February 12, 1793 1. Stat., 1:302. PRECIS Section 3: directs United States district or circuit... | |
 | 1988
...was tabled: That a committee be appointed to inquire if any, and what, alterations are necessary in the act, entitled "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from their masters." DECEMBER 30, 1796 (Friday) House Action [HJ 632-633; Annals 1741-1762] Petition Referred... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1989 - 898 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - History - 1991 - 423 pages
...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... | |
 | Howard Brotz - Social Science - 2011 - 641 pages
...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... | |
 | University of Wisconsin--Madison Center for the Study of the American - History - 1995 - 289 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - Social Science - 1998 - 352 pages
...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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That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters... 
