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  4. Session: 1862-03-12 12:00:00
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Session 11942: 1862-03-12 12:00:00

The Senate considers S. 108 in Committee of the Whole

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S. 108

Shown with amendment 'S. 108: Mr. Wright's Amendment' (e871210)

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A Bill

For the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That noall person not nows held to service or labor within the District of Columbia, nor now owned by reason of African descent, are hereby discharged any person or persons now resident wd freed of and from all claim to such service or labor; and subjection to inservice or labor proceeding from such causeafter born within it,er held in slavery with not shall not hereafter exist in said District.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no now within said District,all persons holding claims to service or now owned by any prinow resident withinsame,labor against persons discharged thereafterom born within it,ever be held in slaveryy this act may, withoutlimitsid District: P, That officers ofin ninety days from the Govpassage thernment ofAnd b, being citizens of the slaveholding States,ut not thereafter, present to the comming into said District on public business, and remaining only so long as may be reasonably necessaryssioners hereinafter mentioned their respective statements or petitions in writing, verified by oath or affirmation, setting for that object, may be the names, ages, attended into and out personal description of said District, and while there, byuch persons, the necessary servants of themselves and their families without their right to holmanner in which said petitioners acquired such servclaim and any facts touchin service beingreby impairg the value thereof.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all children bornthe President of slave mothersthe United States, within said District on or after the 1st day of __ the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint three commissioners, residents of the yearDistrict of our Lord 1862,Columbia, any two of whom shall be free, buthave power to act, who shall be reasreceive the petitions able supported and educove mentioned, and who shall investigate and by the respective ownersdetermine the legal validity of then claimothers, or by their heirs or ren presented, ativnd who shall shall serve reaappraise and apportion, under the proviso hereto annexed, the vablue in money of the serviceral claims apprentices to such ownby them found to be valid: Provided, howevers, That the entirs, and representatives untile sum so appraised and apportioned shall not exceed in they aggrespectively arrivegate an amount the age of twenty-one years, when they shallequal to $300 for each person shown to have be entir so held by tree; alawful claim: And provided furthe municipal authorities of Washr, That no claim shall be allowed for any slave or slaves brought ington and Georgetown, wiirpective jurisdictional limits,eby empower ed and requi said District after the passage of this act; or which originate in or by virtue of any transfer hered tofore makde or which shall suitable and necessarhereafter be made, by any perovisions for enforcing obedience to this sect who has in any manner aided or sustained the rebellion onagainst the parGovernment of both mase Uniters and Stapprentices.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all perssaid commissioners nowshall, within said District lawfully nine months from theld pas slaves, or now owned by any personsage of this act, make a full and final report of their persons now resident within said Districroceedings, findings, and appraisement, and shall remain such atdeliver the willsame of then Secrespective owners, their heirstary of the Treasury, which report shall be deemed and legataken to be conclusive in all representatives: Pspects, except as hereinafter provided, That any such owner or his legal representatives, may at any time receiv; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, with like exception, cause the amounts so apportioned to said claims to be paid from the Ttreasury of the United States the lull value of his or her slave of the class in this section mentioned; upon which such slavo the parties found by said report to be the lawful holders thereof, and the same shall be forthwithreceived in full and forever free: And pcomplete compensation: Provided, further, That tin cases whe President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury petitions may be filed presenting conflicting claims or setting up liens, said commissioners shall so specify in said report, and payment shall not be made boaccord for determining the valueing to the award of said commissioners util a period of suchixty days shall haves as then owners may desire to emancipate under this section, and whose duty it shall he to hold a session for elapsed, during which time any petitioner claiming an interest in the particular amount may file a bill in equity in the purpose oncircuit court of the first MondayDistrict of each calendar month; to receive all applications, and, on satisfactory evidenColumbia, making all other claimants defendants thereto, setting forth the proceedings in easuch case that the person presented for valuabefore said commissioners and their action is a slavetherein, and ofpraying that the class in this section party to whom paymentioned, and is ow has been awarded may be enjoined byfrom receiving the applicant,same; and if said court shall valuegrant such slave at his or her full cash value, and give toprovisional order, a copy thereof may, on motion of said complaint, be served upon the applicant an older onSecretary of the Treasury for, who shall thereupon cause the said amount, and also to such slave a certif of money to be paid into said court, subject to its orders and final decree, which payment shall be of freedin full and complete compensation, as in other cases.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the municipal authoritiessaid commissioners shall hold their sessions in the city of Washington, and Georgetown, withint such place and times as their Prespective jurisdictional limits, are hereby empoweredident of the United States may direct, of which they shall give due and requiredpublic notice. They shall have power to subprovidena activnd compel the attend efficient meansance of witnesses, and to arreceive testimony and deliver up to theirrs all fugitive slaves escaping into said Dienforce its production, as in civil cases before courts of justrict.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, Thate; and they may summons before them the electiperson officers within said District of Columbia me hereby empoweredmaking claim to service or labor, and required to open polls examine them under oath; allnd the usuy may also, for placurposes of holding , elecidentifications on the first Monday of April next, and receiv and appraisement, call before them vothe of every free white male citizen above the age of twenty-one yearspersons so claimed. Said commissioners shall appoint a clerk, who shaving resided within said District for the perioll keep files and complete record of one year or more nextall proceeding the time of such voting fos before them, who shall have power tor agadminister oathis act, tond affirmations in said proceed ings, taking said votes inwho shall issue all lawful procespect not herein specified, as at electionss by them ordered. The marshal of the District of Columbia shall personally, or by deputy, attend uponder the municipal lawsessions of said commissioners, and with as little delay asshall execute the process issued by said cle to transmitrk.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That said commissioner shall rect statements ofeive in compensation for the votes so castir services the sum of $2,00 each, to the Presidentbe paid upon the filing of the United States; and itir report; that said clerk shall receive for his services the dutysum of the Preside$200 per month; to canvasshat said marshal shall receid vote immediately, and it a majorit tysuch fees as are allowed by law for similar services performed by him in the circuit court of them be found toor this fthwith issue his proclamation giving notice of the fa; District of Columbia; that the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause all other reasonable expenses of said commission to be audited and allowed, and this act shall only be in full fced effect on and afte daaid compensation fees and expenses shall be paid from the treasury ofroclamation the United States.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That involuntary servitude forunintcrime wthe party shall have been duly convedin nowise be prohibfor the purpose of carrying this act into effect there is hereby appropriated from the treasury of the United bis actStates a sum not exceeding $1,000,000.

Sec. 89. And be it further enacted, That for all the purposes of this act,acts of Congress and all laws of the jurisdictional limitsState of Washington are extendeMaryland in force in said District, and to all partordinances of the Districtcities of Columbia not nWashington or Georgetown, includedonsistent within the limitprovisions of Georgetownthis act, are hereby repealed.

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