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Fugitive Clause in the Constitution. [Chapter II, p. 20.]
1787, Sept. 13. Art. IV, § 2. "No person held to service or labor
in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in
consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to
whom such service or labor may be due."—Revised Statutes of the
United States, I, 18.
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