- Collection:
- Slavery Papers and Speeches
- Title:
- Resolutions of the General Assembly of Georgia: in favor of so amending the Constitution of the United States as to authorize circuit judges of the United States to surrender fugitives from justice
- Creator:
- General Assembly, Georgia
United States, Committee on the Judiciary Congress - Publisher:
- Blair & Rives, printers
- Date of Original:
- 1840-03-11
- Subject:
- Government publications--United States--Georgia
Fugitives--United States
Slavery
Rare Books - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- books
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Georgia. General Assembly.,(1840). Resolutions of the General Assembly of Georgia: in favor of so amending the Constitution of the United States as to authorize circuit judges of the United States to surrender fugitives from justice. [Washington]: Blair & Rives, printers. March 11, 1840. This 1840 document from the General Assembly of Georgia sought to empower United States circuit judges the jurisdiction so that "[those] who shall flee from justice and be found in another State, shall, on demand...be delivered up...to the State having jurisdiction of the crime." This document appears to be an antecedent of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Series [Document] - 26th Congress, 1st session, Senate ; 273 Publisher Blair & Rives, printers, 1840.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2207
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Valdosta State University. Odum Library. Archives and Special Collections
- Rights:
-
