States be returned to
Africa or bound out in free States (Sloan: _Ibid._, p. 254).

9. That all be sent back to Africa (Smilie: _Ibid._, p. 176).

10. That those imported into free States be free, those
imported into slave States be returned to Africa or indentured
(Sloan: _Ibid._, p. 226).

11. That they be forfeited but not sold (Sloan and others:
_Ibid._, p. 270).

12. That they be free (Sloan: _Ibid._, p. 168; Bidwell:
_House Journal_ (repr. 1826), 9 Cong. 2 sess. V. 515).

[5] Bidwell, Cook, and others: _Annals of Cong._, 9 Cong. 2
sess. p. 201.

[6] Bidwell: _Ibid._, p. 172.

[7] Fisk: _Ibid._, pp. 224-5; Bidwell: _Ibid._, p. 221.

[8] Quincy: _Ibid._, p. 184.

[9] _Annals of Cong._, 9 Cong. 2 sess. p. 478; Bidwell:
_Ibid._, p. 171.

[10] _Ibid._, p. 172.

[11] _Annals of Cong._, 9 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 173-4.

[12] Alston: _Ibid._, p. 170.

[13] D.R. Williams: _Annals of Cong._, 9 Cong. 2 sess. p. 183.

[14] Early: _Ibid._, pp. 184-5.

[15] Lloyd, Early, and others: _Ibid._, p. 203.

[16] Alston: _Ibid._, p. 170.

[17] Quincy: _Ibid._, p. 222; Macon: _Ibid._, p. 225.

[18] Macon: _Ibid._, p. 177.

[19] Barker: _Ibid._, p. 171; Bidwell: _Ibid._, p. 172.

[20] Clay, Alston, and Early: _Ibid._, p. 266.

[21] Clay, Alston, and Early: _Annals of Cong._, 9 Cong. 2
sess. p. 266.

[22] Bidwell: _Ibid._, p. 221.

[23] Sloan and others: _Ibid._, p. 271; Early and Alston:
_Ibid._, pp. 168, 171.

[24] Ely, Bidwell, and others: _Ibid._, pp. 179, 181, 271;
Smilie and Findley: _Ibid._, pp. 225, 226.

[25] _Ibid._, p. 240. Cf. Lloyd: _Ibid._, p. 236.

[26] Holland: _Ibid._, p. 241.

[27] _Ibid._, p. 227; Macon: _Ibid._, p. 225.

[28] Bidwell, Cook, and others: _Ibid._, p. 201.

[29] Bidwell: _Annals of Cong._, 9 Cong. 2 sess. p. 221. Cf.
_Ibid._, p. 202.

[30] Early: _Ibid._, p. 239.

[31] _Ibid._

[32] _Ibid._, p. 1267.

[33] There were about six distinct punishments suggested:--

1. Forfeiture, and fine of $5000 to $10,000 (Early's bill:
_Ibid._, p. 167).

2. Forfeiture and imprisonment (amendment to Senate bill:
_Ibid._, pp. 231, 477, 483).

3. Forfeiture, imprisonment from 5 to 10 years, and fine of
$1000 to $10,000 (amendment to amendment of Senate bill:
_Ibid._, pp. 228, 483).

4. Forfeiture, imprisonment f