, it shall be incumbent on such person, within thirty
days thereafter, to register the name and age of such negro or
mulatto with the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the
proper county.

"Sec. 7. Requires new registry on removal to another county."

"Secs. 8, 9. Penalties by fine for breach of this act.

"Sec. 10. Clerk to take security that negro be not chargeable
when his term expires.

"Sec. 12. Fees.

"Sec. 13. That the children born in said territory of a parent of
color owning service or labor, by _indenture_ according to law,
should serve the master or mistress of such parent--the males
until the age of thirty, and the females until the age of
twenty-eight years. (As quoted in Boon v. Juliet, 1836, 1,
Scammon, 258.)

"Sec. 14. That an act respecting apprentices misused by their
master or mistress should apply to such children. (See the
statute cited in Rankin v. Lydia, 2, A. K. Marshall's Ky., 467;
and in Jarrot v. Jarrot, 2, Gilman, 19.) This act was repealed in
1810."[48]

Under the first constitution of Indiana, adopted in 1816, Negroes were
not debarred from the elective franchise. In Article i, Section 1, of
the Bill of Rights, this remarkable language occurs: "That all men are
born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent,
and unalienable rights," etc. But the very next year the primal rights
of the Negro as a citizen were struck down by the following: "No
negro, mulatto, or Indian shall be a witness, except in pleas of the
State against negroes, mulattoes, or Indians, or in civil cases where
negroes, mulattoes, or Indians alone shall be parties."[49]

In 1819 [March 22d], an execution law was passed by which the time of
service of Negroes could be sold on execution against the master, in
the same manner as personal estate. From the time of the sale, such
Negroes or Mulattoes were compelled to serve the buyer until the
expiration of the term of service.[50]

In 1831, an act regulating free Negroes and Mulattoes, servants and
slaves, declared:

"Sec. 1. Negroes and mulattoes emigrating into the State shall
give bond, etc.

"Sec. 2. In failure of this, such negro, etc., may be hired out
and the proceeds applied to his benefit, or removed from the
State under the poor law.

"Sec. 3. Penalty for committing such without authority.

"Sec.