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“ Sec. 4. If any person shall entice, decoy or carry away out of 
this territory any slave belonging to another, with intent to deprive 
the owner thereof of the services of such slave, or with intent to 
effect or procure the freedom of such slave, he shall be adjudged 
guilty of grand larceny, and, on conviction thereof, shall suffer 
death, or be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten years. 
“ Sec. 5. If any person shall aid or assist in enticing, decoying, 
or persuading, or carrying away, or sending out of this territory, 
any slave belonging to another, with intent to procure or effect the 
freedom of such slave, or with intent to deprive the owner thereof 
of the services of such slave, he shall be adjudged guilty of grand 
larceny, and, on conviction thereof, shall suffer death, or be impris¬ 
oned at hard labor for not less than ten years. 
“ Sec. 6. If any person shall entice, decoy or carry away out 
of any state or other territory of the United States, any slave 
belonging to another, with intent to procure or effect the freedom 
of such slave, or to deprive the owner thereof of the services of 
such slave, and shall bring such slave into this territory, he shall 
be adjudged guilty of grand larceny, in the same manner as if 
such slave had been enticed, decoyed or carried away out of this 
territory, and in such case the larceny may be charged to have 
been committed in any county of this territory, into or through 
which such slave shall have been brought by such person, and, on 
conviction thereof, the person offending shall suffer death, or be 
imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten years. • 
“ Sec. 7. If any person shall entice, persuade or induce any 
slave to escape from the service of his master or owner in this ter¬ 
ritory, or shall aid or assist any slave in escaping from the service 
of his master or owner, or shall aid, assist, harbor or conceal, any 
slave who may have escaped from the service of his master or owner, 
he shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment 
at hard labor for a term of not less than five years. 
“ Sec. 8. If any person in this territory shall aid or assist, 
harbor or conceal, any slave who has escaped from the service of 
his master or owner, in another state or territory, such person 
shall be punished in like manner as if such slave had escaped from 
the service of his master or owner in this territory. 
