One of the sections was moved by Mr. Milledge, and was in the following words:
"That, from and after the establishment of the said government, the people of the aforesaid territory shall be entitled to and enjoy all and singular the rights, privileges, and advantages, granted to the people of the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, in and by the aforesaid ordinance of the 13th day of July, in the year 1787, in as full and ample manner as the same are possessed and enjoyed by the people of the said last-mentioned territory."
The other, moved by Mr. Harper, was to the following effect:
"That, from and after the establishment of the aforesaid government, it shall not be lawful for any person to import or bring into the said territory, from any part or place without the limits of the United States, any slave or slaves, on pain of forfeiting three hundred dollars for every slave so brought, one-half to the United States, and the other half to the person who shall sue for the same; and every person so imported shall be entitled to and receive his or her freedom."
When this section was proposed, Mr. Thatcher moved to strike out the words "without the limits of the United States," so as to have made it unlawful to have brought any slave there; but the motion was not seconded.
Tuesday, March 27.
The bill from the Senate for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia, was passed with amendments.
Relations with France.
Mr. Baldwin hoped the House would now resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union.