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" They shall have power to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary food and clothing, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb... "
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d ... - Page 7
by United States. Congress. House - 1820
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Niles' National Register, Volume 19

1821 - 454 pages
...any pretext whatsoever; anil, • Second, To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all injuries to them extending...Sec. 27. In prosecutions for crimes, slaves shall not h»> denriyed of an- impartial trial by jury, and a slave convicted of a capital offence shall suffer...
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The History of Kentucky: Exhibiting an Account of the Modern Discovery ...

Humphrey Marshall - Kentucky - 1824 - 538 pages
...owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary clothing and provisions, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb, and in case of their neglect, or refusal to comply with the directions of such laws, to have such slave...
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A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United ...

George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...in the first and second clauses, viz. " to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb," the general assembly have passed this act: " No cruel or unusual punishment shall be inflicted on any...
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A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing All the Statutes of ...

Alabama, John Gaston Aikin - Law - 1833 - 630 pages
...the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary food and clothing, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb, and, in ease of their neglect, or refusal to comply with the directions of such laws, to have such...
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A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky, of a Public and ..., Volume 1

Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - Law - 1834 - 810 pages
...owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary clothing and provision, to abstain from all injuries to them, extending to life or limb, and in case of their neglect or refusal to comply with the directions, of such laws, to have such slave...
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Gazetteer of the State of Missouri: With a Map of the State...To which is ...

Missouri - 1837 - 394 pages
...under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second. To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb. § 27. In prosecutions for crimes, slaves shall not be deprived of an impartial trial by jury, and...
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A New Guide for Emigrants to the West: Containing Sketches of Michigan, Ohio ...

John Mason Peck - History - 1837 - 396 pages
...made the duty of the General Assembly " to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb." " Slaves shall not be deprived of an impartial trial by jury." In 1832, there were in the State, 32,184...
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The Geographical Catechism of Pennsylvania: And the Western States; Designed ...

Israel Daniel Rupp - Missouri - 1837 - 398 pages
...made the duty of the General Assembly " to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb." " Slaves shall not be deprived of an impartial trial by jury." .In 1832, there were in the state, 32,184...
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The Revised Ordinances of the City of Saint Louis, 1835-36, 1843, 1846, 1850 ...

Saint Louis (Mo.). - 1838 - 284 pages
...slaves to treat them with humanity, and abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb. § 27. In prosecutions for crimes, slaves shall not be...punishment, and no other, that would be inflicted OH a free white person for a like offence; and courts of justice before whom slaves shall be tried,...
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Digest of Cases Decided and Reported in the Supreme Court of the State of ...

Philip Phillips - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 412 pages
...the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary food and clothing, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb, and, in case of their neglect, or refusal to comply with the directions of such laws, to have such...
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