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Sect. 2.
No person bound to labor in any other state shall be hired to labour in this state, except within the tract reserved for the salt works near Shawneetown; nor even at that place for a longer period than one year at any one time; nor shall it be allowed there after the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five: any violation of this article shall effect the emancipation of such person from his obligation to service.
Sect. 3.
Each and every person who has been bound to service by contract or indenture in virtue of the laws of the Illinois Territory heretofore existing, and in conformity to the provisions of the same, without fraud or collusion, shall be held to a specific performance of their contracts or indentures; and such negros and mulattos as have been registered in conformity with the aforesaid laws, shall serve out the time appointed by said laws: provided however that the children hereafter born of such persons, negros or mulattos, shall become free, the males at the age of twenty one years, the females at the age of eighteen years. Each and every child born of indentured parents shall be entered with the clerk of the county in which they reside by their owners within six months after the birth of said child.
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