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Fugitive
Slave Law
1793
ART.
4. For the better security of the peace and friendship now
entered into by the contracting parties, against all
infractions of the same, by the citizens of either party, to
the prejudice of the other, neither party shall proceed to
the infliction of punishments on the citizens of the other,
otherwise than by securing the offender, or offenders, by
imprisonment, or any other competent means, till a fair and
impartial trial can be had by judges or juries of both
parties, as near as can be, to the laws, customs, and
usage's of the contracting parties, and natural justice: the
mode of such trials to be hereafter fixed by the wise men of
the United States, in congress assembled, with the
assistance of such deputies of the Delaware nation, as may
be appointed to act in concert with them in adjusting this
matter to their mutual liking. And it is further agreed
between the parties aforesaid, that neither shall entertain,
or give countenance to, the enemies of the other, or
protect, in their respective states, criminal fugitives,
servants, or slaves, but the same to apprehend and secure,
and deliver to the state or states, to which such enemies,
criminals, servants, or slaves, respectively belong.
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