ACT OF CONGRESS. An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, That whenever the executive authority of any state in the union, or of either of the territories northwest or south of the river Ohio, shall demand any person a fugitive from justice, of the executive authority of any such state or territory to which such person shall have fled, and shall moreover produce the copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any state or territory as aforesaid, charging the person so demanded, with having committed treason, felony or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the state or territory from whence the person so charged fled, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of the state or territory to which such person shall have fled, to cause him or her to be arrested and secured, and notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear. But if no such agent shall appear within six months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged. And all costs or expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing, and transmitting such fugitive to the state or territory making such demand, shall be paid by such state or territory. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any agent appointed as aforesaid, who shall receive the fugitive into his custody, shall be empowered to transport him or her to the state or territory from which he or she shall have fled. And if any person or persons shall by force set at liberty, or rescue the fugitive from such agent while transporting, as aforesaid, the person or persons so offending shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when a person held to labor in any of the United States, or in either of the territories on the northwest or south of the river Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape into any other of the said states or territory, the person to whom such labor or service may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States residing or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made, and upon proof to the satisfaction of such judge or magistrate, either by oral testimony or affidavit, taken before and certified by a magistrate of any such state or territory, that the person so seized or arrested, doth, under the laws of the state or territory from which he or she fled, owe service or labor to the person claiming him or her, it shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate, to give a certificate thereof to such claimant, his agent or attorney, which shall be sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive from labor, to the state or territory from which he or she fled. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney in so seizing or arresting such fugitive from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimnt, his agent or attorney when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared; or shall harbcr or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor, as aforesaid, shall for either of the said offenses, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars. Which pen alty may be recovered by and for the benefit of such claimant, by action of debt, in any court proper to try the same; saving moreover to the person claiming such labor or service, his right of action for or on account of the said injuries or either of them. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the house of representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States and Approved, February 12, 1793: GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. LAWS Passed at the First Session of the Third General Assembly of the State of Ohio. CHAPTER I. An act, respecting crimes and punishments. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Treason the state of Ohio, That if any person belonging to, residing in or protected by, the laws of this state, shall levy war against the state of Ohio, or shall knowingly and wilfully aid or assist any enemies at war against this state, by joining the armies or fleets of such enemies or by enlisting, persuading or procuring others to join said fleets or armies, or by furnishing such enemies with arms, ammunition, provisions or any other articles for their aid or comfort, or by carrying on a treasonable and treacherous correspondence with them, or shall form or be any way concerned in forming any combination, plot or conspiracy, for betraying the state of Ohio into the hands or power of any foreign enemy, or shall give or attempt to give, or send any intelligence to any such enemy, for said Murder. Manslaugh ter. Rape. Assault with intent to commit a rape. purpose, the person or persons so offending, in any of the cases above rehearsed and thereof legally convicted of open deed, by the evidence of two sufficient and lawful witnesses, or their own voluntary confession, shall be deemed guilty of treason and shall suffer death. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person of sound memory and discretion, shall unlawfully kill any human being and in the public peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied, and being thereof legally convicted, shall suffer death. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall unlawfully kill another, without malice express or implied, either intentionally, on a sudden quarrel or unintentionally, in the commission of some unlawful act and shall be thereof legally convicted, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisoned not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court, and be perpetually disabled from being a juror or a witness in any court of law within this state. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any man shall carnally know any woman, with force and against her consent, or shall carnally know any woman child, under the age of ten years, with or without her consent, such person shall be deemed guilty of a rape and on conviction thereof, shall suffer death. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall, with force and arms, and actual violence, an assault make on the body of any female, with an intent to commit a rape, he shall, on conviction thereof, be whipped not exceeding thirty |