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 punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labour or service is lawfully claimed in any other State, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labour or service, as aforesaid: Provided nevertheless, that the said Provision shall not be construed to alter the condition or civil rights of any person now held to service or labor in the said Territory.

And that the following provision be added to the Bill.

And be it further enacted, that in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty five degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, Slavery and involuntary servitude otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall be and is hereby