at the discretion of a justice, not exceeding twenty lashes.—p. 424.
Suppl. Rev. Code.—Any white person assembling- with slaves, for the purpose of teaching them to read or write, shall be fined, not less than 10 dollars, nor more than 100 dollars; or with free colored persons, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, and imprisoned not more than two months.—p. 245.
By the revised code, seventy-one offences are punished with death when committed by slaves, and by nothing more than imprisonment when by the whites.— Stroud's Sketch, p. 107.
Rev. Code.—In the trial of slaves, the court consists of five justices without juries, even in capital cases. — I., p. 420.
MARYLAND.—Stat. Law, Sec. 8.—Any slave, for rambling in the night, or riding horses by day without leave, or running away, may be punished by whipping, cropping, or branding in the cheek, or otherwise, not rendering him unfit for labor.—p.237.
Any slave convicted of petty treason, murder, or wilful burning of dwelling houses, may be sentenced to have the right hand cut off, to he hanged in the usual manner, the head severed from the body, the body divided into four quarters, and, the head and quarters set up in the most public place in the country where such fact was committed!! —p. 190.
Act 1717, Chap. 13, Sec. 5—Provides that any free colored person marrying a slave, becomes a slave for life, except mulattoes born of white women.
DELAWARE.—Laws.—More than six men slaves, meeting together, not belonging to one master, unless on lawful business of their owners, may be whipped to the extent of twenty-one lashes each. —p 104.
UNITED STATES.—Constitution.—The chief pro-slavery provisions of the constitution, as is generally known, are, 1st, that by virtue of which the slave states are represented
