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  3. Committee:Senate Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1862-03-12 12:00:00
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The Road to Civil War

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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. McDougall's Amendment' (e871239)

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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 any person or persons now resident within it,by reason of African descent, are hereby discharged and freed of and from all claim to suchall service or labor; and subjection toldwithin said Distrervictce asor labor proceeding from such causein shall not hereafter notedexist in said District.

Sec. 2. And bAnd be it further enacted, That noall person now within said District,s holding claims to service or now owned by anylabor against person or persons now residens discharged therefrom by this act may, within ninety days from the passame, or ge thereof, but not thereafter born within it, shall ever be held in slavery withoulimi, present to the commissioners hereinafter mentioned their respective statements of sDistr petitions in wricting, verifirsGovernment ofed by oath or affirmation, setting forth the United Statnames, ages, being citizensand personal description of the slaveholding States, coming intosuch persons, the manner in which said District on public business,petitioners acquired such claim and remaining only so long as may be reasonably necessary for that objefacts touching the value thereof.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, may be attenThat the Presided intoand who shall legal outof said Districtnd who shall while of the United States, with there, by the advice and conservants of themselves and then families, without Senate, shall appoint three commissioners, residents of their right District of Columbia, any two of whold such servants in service beingm shall have power to act, who shall receive thereby impaired: And provided further, That citizens petitions above mentioned, and who shall investigate and determine the legal validity of slaveholding States visiting or temporarily remaining inthe claims therein presented, and who shall appraise and apportion, under the proviso hereto annexed, the value in money of the said District may be atteeveral claims by them founded into and out ofDistrict, and whilbe valid: Provided, however, That the thentire, byservasmselves sum so appraised andn families, wi apportioned shall not exceed in the aggregate an amouirighnt equal to hold such servants in servic$300 for each person shown to have being thereby impaired.

Sec. 3.en so held by lawful claim: And be itprovided further enacted, That the children born ofno claim shall be allowed for any slave mother slaves withbrought into said District on or after the 1st day of __,passage of this act; or which originate in thor by virtue of any transfear heretof our Lord 1862,ore made or which shall be frehereafter be made, but shall be reasonably supported and educaty any person who has in any manner aided or sustained by the respective ownersbellion against the Government of their mothers, or by their heirs or representativesthe lawful hold United States.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners, and shall serv, within nine months from the pasonable services as apprentices to such owners, heirsage of this act, make a full and final report of their proceedings, findings, and repreappraisementatives, until they respectivand shall dely arrive atr the agsame of twenty-one yearshe Secretary of the Treasury, when theyich report shall be entirely free;deemed and the municipaaken to be conclusive in all authorities of Wpects, except as hereingtonafter provided; and Georgetown withinthe Secretary of their Treaspective jurisdictional limits, are hereby empowered and requiry shall, with like exception, cause the amounts so apportioned to make all suitable and necessary provisions for enforcing obediencesaid claims to be paid from the treasury of the United States to the parties section on the pafound by said report tof both masterse the lawful holders thereof, and apprentices.

Sec. 4. And be it further the same shall be received in full and complete compensaction: Provided, That all persons now win cases where petithion s may be filed District lawfully held as slaves,presenting conflicting claims or now owned by any perssetting up liens, said commission or persons now resident with shall so specify in said Districreport, and payment shall remain such atnot be made according to the willaward of their respective owsaid commissioners, their heirs and legal representatives: Provid util a period of sixty days shall have elapsed, Thasuchr or his legal representatives may at any time receive fromduring which time any petitioner claiming an interest in the Treasury of the United Statesparticular amount may file a bill in equity in the lull valuecircuit court of the Dis or her slave of trict of Columbia, making all other class in tins section mentioned, upon whichimants defendants thereto, setting forth the proceedings in such slavcase shall be forthwithe said commissioners and forever free: Atheir action therein, and provided further, Taying that the Court of Claims shall receive all applications, and on satisfactory evidence in each case that theparty to whom payment has been awarded may be enjoined from receiving the same; and if said court shall grant such perovision presented for valuaal order, a copy thereof may, on motion is a slave, and ofof said complaint, be served upon the class in this section mentioned, and is owSecretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon cause the said amount of moned by the applicant, shall value such slave at hio be paid into said court, subject to its or her full cash value, and give to the applicant an order on the Treasury for the amountders and final decree, which payment shall be in full and complete compensation, as ind also to such slave a certificate of freedom cases.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all slaves and free persons of color, residents ofsaid commissioners shall hold their sessions in the said District, may be colcity of Washingtonizaled, with their consent, out ofat such place and times as the limitsPresident of the United States, and the sum may direct, of $230,000, out of any money in the Treasurywhich they shall give due and public not otherwise appropriated, may be expended underice. They shall have power to subpoena and compel the directionattendance of the President of the United States.6the electifficithin said Districtwitnesses, and to receive testimony and enforce its production, as in civil cases before courts of Columbia are justice; and thereby empowedd requidopen polls at allmay summons before them the usuallacf holding electnpersons making claim to service or labor, and examine the first Mom under oath; and they may of April next,also, for purposes of identification and receivappraisement, call before them vothe of e free white male citizboveage of twenty-one yearspersons so claimed. Said commissioners shall appoint a clerk, who shavresiwithin said District for the perioll keep files and complete record of one year or mall proceedings before next procegme of such voting agathem, who shall have power to administer oathis act. tond affirmations in said proceed aking said votes ins, and who shall issue all lawful procespects notspecified, as at elections undmunicil laws, andh as little delay as possibransmctatementsvotes by them ordered. The marshal of the District of Columbia shall personally, or by deputy, attend upon the sessions of said commistPresidentUnStates;oners, and it shall be thexecute dutythe President to canvaprocessvotes immediately,if a majority of themfouo beis ssued by said clerk.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, to forthwith issue his proclamThat said commissioner shall receive in compensation gnotfor their services the sum of factthis ac$2,00 each, tonly be paid upon full force aneffec nd aftthe filing of their report; that said clerk shall receive for his services the sum of $200 per monthe day of; that said marshal shall receive such proclamation7involuntfees as are allowed by law for similary servitude ces performed by him in the punishmencircuit court of crime wthe District of Columbia; that the Secretary of the Treasury shall havcause all other reasonable expenses of saiduly convd shmmission to be audited and allowed, and that said compensation nowifees and expenses shall be paid frohibi8for allm the treasury of the United States.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes of carrying this act, into effect there jurisdictional limits hereby appropriated from the treasury of Washington are extethe United States a sum not exceeding $1,000,000.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, Thato all paracts of Congress and all laws of the State of Maryland in force in said District of Columbia not n, and all ordinances of the cities of Washington or Georgetown, includedonsistent within the huntprovisions of Georgetownthis act, are hereby repealed.

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