 | Paul Finkelman - History
...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 - History - 2002 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | Marcus D. Pohlmann, Linda Vallar Whisenhunt - Law - 2002 - 284 pages
...APPROVED, September 9, 1850. AMENDING THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT 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. commissioners . . . are authorized... | |
 | Martin Robison Delany - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 507 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, 1793. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - History - 2003 - 492 pages
...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... | |
 | Michael Beschloss - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 256 pages
...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... | |
 | Rollin C. Hurd - Law - 2010 - 677 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 362 pages
...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 - History - 2005 - 225 pages
...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... | |
 | H. Robert Baker - History - 2006 - 260 pages
...1850). 97- Fehrenbacher, Slaveholding Republic, 227. 98. 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) (hereafter Fugitive Slave Act of 1850). Section 7 spells out criminal penalties.... | |
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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... 
