Page:An Act of April 16, 1862 (For the Release of Certain Persons Held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia), 04-16-1862.pdf/4

jurisdiction in said District shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than twenty years. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That within twenty days, or within such further time as the commissioners herein provided for shall limit, after the passage of this act, a statement in writing or schedule shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court for the District of Columbia by the several owners or claimants to the services of the persons made free or manumitted by this act, setting forth the names, ages, sex and particular description of such persons severally; and the said clerk shall receive and record in a book by him to be provided and kept for that purpose, the said statements or schedules on receiving fifty cents each therefor and no claim shall be allowed to any claimant or owner who shall neglect this requirement. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the same clerk and his successors in office shall from time to time on demand and on receiving twenty five cents therefor prepare, sign and deliver to each person made free or manumitted by this act a certificate under the seal of said court, setting out the name, age, and description of such person and stating that such person was duly manumitted and set free by this act. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, to aid in the colonization and settlement of such free persons of African descent now residing in said District including those to be liberated by this act as may desire to emigrate to the Republic of Hayte or Liberia, or such other country beyond the limits of the United States as the President may determine; Provided, The expenditure for this purpose shall not exceed one hundred dollars for each emigrant. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That