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An Act in Addition to an Act of the Admission
and Settlement of Inhabitants of the Town
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.
