erfere with or abolish involuntary service in
places under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States
within those States and Territories where the same is
established or recognized; nor the power to prohibit the
removal or transportation of persons held to labor or
involuntary service in any State or Territory of the United
States to any other State or Territory thereof where it is
established or recognized by law or usage, and the right
during transportation, by sea or river, of touching at
ports, shores, and landings, and of landing in case of
distress, shall exist; but not the right of transit in or
through any State or Territory, or of sale or traffic,
against the laws thereof. Nor shall Congress have power to
authorize any higher rate of taxation on persons held to
labor or service than on land. The bringing into the
District of Columbia of persons held to labor or service,
for sale, or placing them in depots to be afterwards
transferred to other places for sale as merchandise, is
prohibited.

SEC. 4. The third paragraph of the second section of the
fourth article of the Constitution shall not be construed to
prevent any of the States, by appropriate legislation, and
through the action of their judicial and ministerial
officers, from enforcing the delivery of fugitives from
labor to the person to whom such service or labor is due.

SEC. 5. The foreign slave-trade is hereby forever
prohibited; and it shall be the duty of Congress to pass
laws to prevent the importation of slaves, coolies, or
persons held to service or labor, into the United States and
the Territories from places beyond the limits thereof.

SEC. 6. The first, third, and fifth sections, together with
this section of those amendments, and the third paragraph of
the second section of the first article of the Constitution,
and the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth
article thereof, shall not be amended or abolished without
the consent of all the States.

SEC. 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 fro