 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - Federal government - 2005 - 238 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 - 276 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.... | |
 | Loren Schweninger, Marguerite Ross Howell, Nicole Marcon Mazgaj - African Americans - 2001 - 426 pages
...over to the United States following the Louisiana Purchase. 2. On February 12, 1793, Congress passed "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." It authorized the arrest or seizure of fugitives and empowered "any magistrate of a county, city or... | |
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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... 
