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“ Sec. 9* If any person shall resist any officer while attempting 
to arrest any slave that may have escaped from the service of his 
master or owner, or shall rescue such slave when in custody of any 
officer or other person, or shall entice, persuade, aid or assist, such 
slave to escape from the custody of any officer or other person who 
may have such slave in custody, whether such slave have escaped 
from the service of his master or owner in this territory, or in any 
other state or territory, the person so offending shall be guilty of 
felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of 
not less than two years. 
“Sec. 10. If any marshal, sheriff or constable, or the deputy 
of any such officer, shall, when required by any person, refuse to 
aid or assist in the capture of any slave that may have escaped 
from the service of his master or owner, whether such slave shall 
have escaped from his master or owner in this territory, or any 
state or other territory, such officer shall be fined in a sum of not 
less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. 
* “ Sec. 11. If any person print, write, introduce into,.publish or 
circulate, or cause to be brought into, printed, written, published 
or circulated, or shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, 
printing, publishing or circulating within this territory, any book, 
paper, pamphlet, magazine, handbill or circular, containing any 
statements, arguments, opinions, sentiment, doctrine, advice or 
innuendo, calculated to produce a disorderly, dangerous or rebellious 
disaffection among the slaves in this territory, or to induce such 
slaves to escape from the service of their masters, or to resist their 
authority, he shall be guilty of felony, and be punished by impris¬ 
onment and hard labor for a term not less than five years. 
“ Sec. 12. If any free person, by speaking or by writing, assert 
or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in this 
territory, or shall introduce into this territory, print, publish, write, 
circulate, or cause to be introduced into this territory, written, 
printed, published or circulated in this territory, any book, paper, 
magazine, pamphlet or‘circular, containing any denial of the right 
of persons to hold slaves in this territory, such person shall be 
deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard 
labor for a term of not less than two years. 
