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Show 408 TilE DHED SCOTT CASE. him or her before uny judge of tho circuit or district courts of tho United States, residing or being within the State, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made, and upo~ proof to the satisfaction of such judge or magistra tc, either by oral testimony or affidavit taken before and certified by a magistrate of any such State or territory, that the person so seized or arrested, doth, under the laws of the State or territory from \vhich she or ho fled, owe service or labor to the porson claiming him or bor, it shall be the duty of the judge or magistrate to gi vo a certificate thereof to such claimant, his agent or attorney, which shall be sufficient warrant for removing tho said fugi tivc from labor to the State or territory from which he or she fled. 11 SEa. 4. .And be it further enacted, That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct and hinder such claimant~ ~1is agent or attorney, in so seizing or arresting such fug1t1 vo from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimant, his agent or attorney, when so arrested, pursuant to the authority herein gi von or declared, or shall harbor or conceal such person after notice that he or ~he was a fu gitive from labor as aforesaid, shall, for either of tho said offenses, forfeit and puy the Rum of five hundred dollars. Which penalLy may be rccovcrou by and for tho benefit of such claimant, by action of debt, in any court pr~pe.r to try the same; saving, moreover, to the person cla1mmg such labor or service, his right of action for or on account of the said injuries or either of them." C llAPTl~H Xl V. INAUGURAL ADDR, ESSJ~S O.J.t' WASillNU'l'ON, ADAMS, JEFFEH ON, AND MADISON; AND 'l'llB .J.t'AIU~WJ~ Lf. ADDlt:E~SES OF WASH· ING'l'ON AND JACKSON. TIIE oath of office having, on Thursday, April 30, 17 9, been admini~tered by the Chancellor of the Stale of Now York, in the prescucc of Lhc enatc au<l llouse of H.cprcscntatives, to George Wasbington, President of the United States, he then made the following Inaugural Address: Fellow-Citizens of the Senat(~, ancl of the lfou~e of Repn· ·cntatives : .Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with grcatct· anxieties than that of which lhe notification was u·ansmittcd by your order, and received ou the fourteenth day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whoso voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable dcci ~ ion, as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the aduition of habit to inclinati on, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gra(lual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of tho trust to which the voice of my country callcu me, being· sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of bee citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his quali Ocations, could not but overwholw with de1:>poudcucc one, wbu, inheriting inferior ( ·10~) |