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cured, and notice of the arreft to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of fuch authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to caufe the fugitive to be delivered to fuch agent when he fhall appear: But if no fuch agent shall appear within fix months from the time of the arrest, the prifoner may be difcharged. And all cofts or expenses incurred in the apprehending, fecuring, and tranfmitting fuch fugitive to the ftate or territory making fuch demand, fhall be paid by fuch ftate or territory.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any Penalty on perfons ref- agent appointed as aforefaid, who fhall receive cuing them the fugitive into his cuftody, fhall be empowered to transport him or her to the state or territory from which he or she fhall have fled. And if any perfon or perfons fhall by force fet at liberty, or refcue the fugitive from fuch agent while tranfporting, as aforefaid, the perfon or perfons fo offending fhall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year.

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Sec. 3. And be it alfo enacted, That when a perfon held to labour in any of the United States, or in either of the territories on the north-weft or fouth of the river Ohio, under the laws thereof, fhall escape into any other of the said states or territory, the person to whom fuch labour or fervice may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to feize or arreft fuch fugitive from labour, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or diftrict courts of the United States, refiding or being within the ftate, or before any magiftrate of a county, city or town corporate, wherein fuch feizure or arreft fhall be made, and upon proof to the fatisfaction of

fuch judge or magiftrate, either by oral teftimony or affidavit taken before and certified by a magiftrate of any fuch state or territory, that the person so seized or arrested, doth, under the laws of the ftate or territory from which he or she fled, owe fervice or labour to the perfon claiming him or her, it shall be the duty of fuch judge or magiftrate to give a certificate thereof to fuch claimant, his agent or attorney, which fhall be fufficient warrant for removing the faid fugitive from labour, to the ftate or territory from which he or she fled.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any Penalty on person who fhall knowingly and willingly ob- obtructing ftruct or hinder fuch claimant, his agent or of fugitives attorney in fo feizing or arrefting fuch fugi- from labor, tive from labour, or fhall refcue fuch fugitive from fuch claimant, his agent or attorney when fo arrested purfuant to the authority herein given or declared; or fhall harbour or conceal fuch perfon after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labour, as aforefaid, fhall, for either of the faid offences, forfeit and pay the fum of five hundred dollars. Which penalty may be recovered by and for the benefit of fuch claimant, by action of debt, in any court proper to try the fame; faving moreover to the perfon claiming fuch labour or fervice, his right of action for or on account of the faid injuries or either them.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, February twelfth, 1793:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER VIII.

An Act for enrolling and licensing Ships or Veffels to be employed in the Coafting Trade and Fisheries, and for regulating the fame.

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purposes," and thofe of twenty tons and upwards, which fhall be enrolled after the last day of May next, in pursuance of this act, and having a licence in force, or if lefs than twenty tons, not being enrolled fhall have a licence in force, as is hereafter required, and no others, fhall be deemed fhips or veffels of the United States, entitled to the privileges of fhips or veffels employed in the coafting trade or fisheries.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Ships to poffefs the from and after the last day of May next,-in requifites order for the enrolment of any fhip or veffel, fhe fhall poffefs the fame qualifications, and the fame requifites, in all refpects, shall be complied with, as are made neceffary for registering ships or veffels, by the act, intitled, "An act concerning the registering and recording of fhips or veffels," and the fame duties and authorities are hereby given and impofed on all officers, refpectively, in relation to fuch enrolments, and the fame proceedings enrolment. fhall be had, in fimilar cafes, touching fuch enrolments; and the fhips or vessels fo enrolled, with the mafter, or owner or owners thereof, fhall be fubject to the fame requifites, as

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are in those refpects provided for veffels regiftered by virtue of the aforefaid act; the record of which enrolment fhall be made, and an abftract or copy thereof granted, as nearly as may be, in the form following: "Enrolment Form of en in conformity to an act of the Congrefs of the rolment. United States of America, intitled "An act for enrolling and licenfing fhips or veffels, to be employed in the coafting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the fame" [inferting here the name of the perfon with his occupation and place of abode, by whom the oath or af firmation is to be made having taken and fubfcribed the oath (or affirmation) required by this act, and having fworn (or affirmed) that he (or fhe, and if more than one owner, adding the words "together with," and the name or names, occupation or occupations, place or places of abode, of the owner or owners) is, (or are) a citizen (or citizens) of the United States, and fole owner (or owners) of the ship or veffel, called the [inferting here her name] of [inferting here the name of the port, to which she may belong] whereof [inferting here the name of the mafter] is at prefent master, and is a citizen of the United States, and that the said ship or veffel was [inferting here when and where built] and [inferting here, the name and office, if any, of the perfon, by whom she shall have been furveyed, or admeasured] having certified, that the faid fhip or veffel has [inferting here, the number of decks] and [inferting here, the number of mafts] and that her length is [in-. ferting here, the number of feet] her breadth [inferting here, the number of feet] her depth [inferting here, the number of feet] and that the measures [inferting here, her number of VOL. II.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it donditions fhall and may be lawful for the collectors of the feveral diftricts, to enrol and licenfe any fhip or veffel, that may be registered, upon fuch registry being given up, or to register any ship or veffel, that may be enrolled, upon fuch enrolment and licenfe being given up. And when. any fhip or veffel fhall be in any other district, than the one, to which she belongs, the collector of fuch district, on the application of the master or commander thereof, and upon his taking an oath or affirmation, that, according to his best knowledge and belief, the property remains, as expreffed in the register or enrolment propofed to be given up, and upon his giving the bonds required for granting regifters, thall make the exchanges aforefaid; but in every fuch cafe, the collector, to whom the register, or enrolment and licence may be given up, fhall tranfmit the fame to the regifter of the treasury; and the register, or enrot

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