1. Whereas attempts have been made to establish literary institutions in this State for the instruction of colored people belonging to other States and countries, which would tend to the great increase of the colored population of the State, and thereby to the injury of the people, therefore;
| Be it resolved that no person shall set up or establish in this State, any school, academy, or literary institution for the instruction or education of colored persons, who are not inhabitants of this State, nor instruct or teach in any school, academy, or other literary institution whatever in this State, or harbor or board for the purpose of attending or being taught or instructed in any such school, academy, or other literary institution, any person who is not an inhabitant of any town in this State, without the consent in writing, first obtained of a majority of the civil authority, and also of the selectmen, of the town in which such schools, academy, or literary institution is situated; and each and every person who shall knowingly do any act forbidden as aforesaid, or shall be aiding or assisting therein, shall for the first offense forfeit and pay to the treasurer of this State a fine of one hundred dollars and for the second offense shall forfeit and pay a fine of two hundred dollars, and so double for every offense of which he or she shall be convicted. And all informing officers are required to make due presentment of all breaches of this act. Provided that nothing in this act shall extend to any district school established in any school society under the laws of this State or to any incorporated school for instruction in this State. |
2. Any colored person not an inhabitant of this State who
shall reside in any town therein for the purpose of being
instructed as aforesaid, may be removed in the manner
prescribed in the sixth and seventh sections of the act to
which this is an addition.
3. Any person not an inhabitant of this State who shall
reside in any town therein for the purpose of being
instructed as aforesaid, shall be an admissible witness in
all prosecutions under the first section of this act, and
may be compelled to give testimony therein, notwithstanding
anything in this act, or in the act last aforesaid.
4. That so much of the seventh section of this act to which
this is an addition as may provide for the infliction of
corporal punishment, be and the same is hereby repealed. See
Hurd's "Law of Freedom and Bondage", II, pp. 45-46.
A Century of Negro Migration, March 31, 1918