"For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade," etc., $5,000. Statutes at Large, IV. 670, 671.
1836, March 17. Texas: African Slave-Trade Prohibited.
Constitution of the Republic of Texas: General Provisions:—
§ 9. All persons of color who were slaves for life before coming to Texas shall remain so. "Congress shall pass no laws to prohibit emigrants from bringing their slaves into the republic with them, and holding them by the same tenure by which such slaves were held in the United States; ... the importation
or admission of Africans or negroes into this republic, excepting from the United States of America, is forever prohibited, and declared to be piracy." Laws of the Republic of Texas (Houston, 1838), I. 19.
1836, Dec. 21. Texas: Slave-Trade made Piracy.
"An Act supplementary to an act, for the punishment of Crimes and Misdemeanors."
§ 1. "Be it enacted ..., That if any person or persons shall introduce any African negro or negroes, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the ninth section of the general provisions of the constitution, ... except such as are from the United States of America, and had been held as slaves therein, be considered guilty of piracy; and upon conviction thereof, before any court having cognizance of the same, shall suffer death, without the benefit of clergy."
§ 2. The introduction of Negroes from the United States of America, except of those legally held as slaves there, shall be piracy. Ibid., I. 197. Cf. House Doc., 27 Cong. 1 sess. No. 34, p. 42.
1837, March 3. United States Statute: Appropriation.