[56]. Laws of Md., 1846–47, chap. 27.
[57]. Art. III, sec. 43.
[58]. Revised Stat., 1852, pp. 143–46.
[59]. Laws of Mo., 1847, pp. 103–04.
[60]. Wilson: “The Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America,” II, p. 170.
[61]. Const., 1852, Art. XIII.
[62]. This was held to be in violation of the Federal Constitution in Smith v. Moody, 1866, 26 Ind. 299, on the ground that the Negro had become a citizen and, as such, entitled to migrate from one State into another.
[63]. The section of the statute which related to colonization was repealed in 1865 because the legislature thought that those authorized to act under the statute were not rendering any adequate service to the State. Laws of Ind., 1865, p. 63.
[64]. Wilson: “The Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America,” II, pp. 183–85.
[65]. Pub. Laws of Ill., 1853, p. 57.