[348] Ibid., p. 75.

[349] Laws of State of Del., 1793, p. 105-6. This act of Del. was sustained by the Court of Baltimore in a case brought before it in 1840. Liberator, July 24, 1840.

[350] Laws of Delaware, Dover, 1829, Vol. VII., p. 122, Feb. 7, 1829.

[351] Hurd: Vol. II., pp. 79-80.

[352] Laws of Del., Vol. VIII., p. 246. Dover, 1837, passed Feb. 5, 1833.

[353] Poore: Fed. and State Constitutions, Part I., p. 693.

[354] Hurd: Freedom and Bondage, Vol. II., p. 159.

[355] Acts of Second Sess. of Seventh Legislature, pp. 114-116.

[356] Acts 2nd Sess. 8th Leg. (1828), p. 22.

[357] Laws of La., 1829, 1st Sess. 9th Leg., p. 38.