[313] Section 1 of the law 1833 read: "Each and every person or persons who shall hereafter import into this state any slave or slaves, or who shall sell or buy, or contract for the sale or purchase, for a longer term than one year, of the service of any such slave or slaves, knowing the same to have been imported, shall forfeit and pay $600 for each slave so imported, sold, or bought, or whose service has been so contracted for; recoverable by indictment of a grand jury or any action of debt, in the name of the Commonwealth in any circuit court, where the offenders may be found." Session Laws, 1833, pp. 258-261.
[314] Barre, W. L., p. 116.
[315] Niles' Register, January 23, 1841.
[316] Collins, Vol. 1, p. 83.
[317] Session Laws, 1860, Vol. 1, p. 104.
[318] Ibid., 1864, pp. 70-72.
[319] Littell's Laws, 2: 5-6.
[320] Ibid., 2: 5-6.
[321] Session Laws, 1835, pp. 82-83.
[322] Ibid., 1838, p. 158.