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  1. Overview: The Road to Civil War
  2. Full Record: The Road to Civil War
  3. Committee:Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union of the House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1862-04-10 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

The Road to Civil War

Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union of the House of Representatives

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Session 12161: 1862-04-10 12:00:00

The House, as in Committee of the Whole, considers S. 108

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S. 108

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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 the children of persons held to service for life in the District of Columbia, who may be born after the 1st day of May, 1862, shall be free, and at the age of eighteen years may assert their freedom against all persons.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Any person who may be brought into said District after the 1st day of May, 1862, for the benefit of his or her owner or hirer, shall thereby become tree.

Sec. 3. And be if further enacted, Any person who may deprive a person entitled to freedom according to the first section of this act, of the power and means of asserting such freedom, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be punished on conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, by confinement in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than twenty years.

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