: nent of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted Provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labour 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 labour or service as aforesaid. Dore by the United States, in Congress assembled, the thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of their sover ignty and independence the twelfth. WILLIAM GRAYSON, Chairman. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary. |