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previous to fuch emancipation, a full equivalent in money, for the flaves fo eman-
cipated. They fhall have no power to prevent emigrans to this ftate from
bringing with them fuch perfons as are deemed flaves by the laws of any one of
the United States, fo long as any perfon of the fame age or defeription fhall be
continued in flavery by the laws of this ftate. That they fhall pafs laws to per-
mit the owners of flaves to emancipate them, faving the rights of creditors, and
preventing them from becoming a charge to the county in which they refide.
They fhall have full power to prevent flaves being brought into this ftate as
merchandize. They fhall have full power to prevent any flaves being brought
into this ftate from a foreign country, and to prevent thofe from being brought
into this ftate, who have been fince the firft day of January one thoufand feven
hundred and eighty-nine, or may hereafter be imported into any of the United
States from a foreign country. And they fhall have full power to pafs fuch laws
as may be neceffery, to oblige the owners of flaves to treat them with humanity,
to provide for them neceffery cloathing and provifion, to abftain for all injuries
to them extending to life or limb, and in cafe of their neglect, or refufal to comply
with the directions of fuch laws, to have fuch flave or flaves fold for the benefit
of their owner or ownvers.

Sect. 2. In the profecution of flaves for felony, no inqueft by a grand jury
fhall be neceffery ; but the proceedings in fuch profecutions fhall be regulated by
law ; except that the legiflature fhall have no power to deprive them of the privi-
lege of an impartial trial by a petit jury.

Article VIII.

The feat of government fhall continue in the town of Frankfort, until it fhall
be removed by law ; Provided however, that two-thirds of all the members elected
to each branch of the legiflature fhall concur in tge paffage of fuch law.

Article IX
Mode of Revifing the Conftitution.
When experience fhall point out the neceffity of amending this conftitution,
and when a majority of all the members elected to each branch of the legiflature,
fhall within the firft fifteen days of their ftated annual feffion, concur in paffing
a law for taking the fenfe of the good people of this commonwealth as to the ne-
ceffity and expediency of calling a convention, it fhall be the duty of the feveral
fheriffs and other returning officers at the next general election which fhall be
held for reprefentatives after the paffage of fuch law, to open a poll for, and
make return to the fecretary for the time being, of the manes of all thofe entitled
to vote for reprefentatives who have voted for calling a convention : and if there-
upon it fhall appear that a majority of all the citizens of this ftate entitled to vote
for reprefentatives, have voted for a convention, the general affembly fhall direct
that a fimilar poll fhall be opened and taken for the next year ; and if thereupon

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