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. 4c/ of June 18, 182-. Sec. 21, JSo ne. E:ro or mulatto can be a witness in any case, except against negroes or niulattoes. P. 749, New Code, 372. Sec. 25. Any master licensing his slave to go at large and trade as a freeman, shall forfeit fifty- dollars t:. The State, for the literary fund. Penalty for teaching a slave to read, imprisonment one year. For using language having a tenden- cy to promote discontent among free colored people, or insubordination among slaves, imprisonment at hard la...bor, not less than three, nor more than iweuty-one years, or death at the discretion of the court. L. M. Child's . Appeal, p. 70. Sec. 26. It is lauful for any person, and the duty of every sheriff, deputy-sheriff, coroner and con- stable to apprehend any slave going at large, or hired out by him, or herself and take him or her before a Justice of the peace, who shall impose a penalty of not less than twenty dollars, nor more than fifty dollars on the owner, who has permitted such slave to do so.
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