AYES.--Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New
Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and
Kansas--11.
NOES.--Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts,
North Carolina, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Virginia--9.
The State of New York was divided.
And this section was adopted.
The following gentlemen dissented from the vote of their States:--Mr.
RUFFIN and Mr. MOREHEAD, of North Carolina; Mr. CHASE and Mr. WOLCOTT,
of Ohio; Mr. COOK, of Illinois; and Mr. SUMMERS and Mr. RIVES, of
Virginia.
Mr. GUTHRIE:--I move the adoption of the seventh section of the
report, as amended.
The Secretary read as follows:
SECTION 7. Congress shall provide by law that the United
States shall pay to the owner the full value of his fugitive
from labor, in all cases where the marshal, or other
officer, whose duty it was to arrest such fugitive, was
prevented from so doing by violence or intimidation from
mobs or riotous assemblages, or when, after arrest, such
fugitive was rescued by like violence or intimidation, and
the owner thereby deprived of the same; and the acceptance
of such payment shall preclude the owner from further claim
to such fugitive. Congress shall provide by law for securing
to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities
of citizens in the several States.
The vote on the adoption of this section was as follows:
AYES.--Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New
Jersey, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Tennessee, and Kansas--12.
NOES.--Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, North Carolina,
Vermont, and Virginia--7.
The vote of New York was divided.
So this last section was also adopted.
The following gentlemen dissented from the vote of their respective
States:--Mr. RUFFIN and Mr. MOREHEAD, of North Carolina; Mr. TOTTEN of
Tennessee; Mr. HACKLEMAN and Mr. ORTH, of Indiana; and Mr. CHASE and
Mr. WOLCOTT, of Ohio.
Mr. CHASE:--The sections which have been adopted severally, as a whole
may not be acceptable to a majority of the Conference. They have been
adopted by different votes and different majorities. I think a vote
should be taken upon them collectively, in order that we may know
whether, as a single proposition, they meet the approbation of the
Conference. I move that a vote be taken upon the several sections as a
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