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1 occurrence of Wambaugh, Joseph
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Fugitive Clause in Northwest Ordinance of 1787. [Chapter II, p. 20.]

1787, July 13. Art. VI. "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment
of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted;
provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom
labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States,
such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person
claiming his or her labor or service aforesaid." Read first time, July 11,
1787. Passed July 13, 1787.—Journals of Congress, XII, 84, 92.