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Mr. Lovejoy, from the Committee on the Territories, reports H. R. 374 with an amendment
To secure freedom to all persons within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Ffederal Ggovernment.
To the end that freedom may be, and remain forever, the fundamental law of the land in all places whatsoever, so far as it lies within the powers or depends upon the action of the Ggovernment of the United States to make it so: Therefore,—
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That slavery orand involuntary servitude, in all cases whatsoever, (other thatn in the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,) shall henceforth cease, and be prohibited forever in all the following places, viz:
First. In all the Territories of the United States, now existing, or hereafter to be formed or acquired in any way.