§ 1. The governor by agent shall receive such Negroes, and,
§ 2. sell them, or,
§ 3. give them to the Colonization Society to be transported, on condition that the Society reimburse the State for all expense, and transport them at their own cost. Prince, Digest, p. 793.
1818, Jan. 10. Congress (House): Bill to Supplement Act of 1807.
Mr. Middleton, from the committee on so much of the President's Message as related to the illicit introduction
of slaves into the United States from Amelia Island, reported a bill in addition to former acts prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the United States. This was read twice and committed; April 1 it was considered in Committee of the Whole; Mr. Middleton offered a substitute, which was ordered to be laid on table and to be printed; it became the Act of 1819. See below, March 3, 1819. House Journal, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 131, 410.
1818, Jan. 13. President Monroe's Special Message.
"I have the satisfaction to inform Congress, that the establishment at Amelia Island has been suppressed, and without the effusion of blood. The papers which explain this transaction, I now lay before Congress," etc. Ibid., pp. 137–9.
1818, Feb. 9. Congress (Senate): Bill to Register (?) Slaves.
"A bill respecting the transportation of persons of color, for sale, or to be held to labor." Passed Senate, dropped in House; similar bill Dec. 9, 1818, also dropped in House. Senate Journal, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 147, 152, 157, 165, 170, 188, 201, 203, 232, 237; 15 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 63, 74, 77, 202, 207, 285, 291, 297; House Journal, 15 Cong. 1 sess. p. 332; 15 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 303, 305, 316.