=1785, April 6.= Report of the Committee on Government of the Western Territory. "Provided that always, upon the escape of any person into any of the States described in the resolve of Congress of the twenty-third day of April, 1784, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the thirteen original States, such fugitive might be lawfully reclaimed and carried back to the person claiming his labor or service, this resolve notwithstanding."--_Papers of Old Congress_, XXI. 331, cited in _Bancroft, History of the United States (last Revision), VI. 133._
=5. Fugitive clauses in Indian treaties. [§ 13.]=
=1785, Nov. 28.= Treaty with the Cherokees, Art. I.
=1786, Jan. 3.= Treaty with the Choctaws, Art. I.
=1786, Jan. 10.= Treaty with the Chickasaws, Art. I.
Identical clauses. The Indians "to restore all the Negroes and all other property taken during the late war."
=1786, June 31.= Treaty with the Shawanees. Art. I. "All prisoners white and black taken in the late war from among the citizens of the United States by the Shawanee nation shall be restored."--_Statutes at Large, VII. 18, 21, 25, 26._
=6. Fugitive clause in Northwest Ordinance of 1787. [§ 14]=
=1787, July 13.= Art. VI. "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; _provided_, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service aforesaid." Read first time, July 11, 1787. Passed July 13, 1787.--¤ _Journals of Congress, XII. 84, 92._
=7. Fugitive clause in the Constitution. [§ 15.]=
=1787, Sept. 13.= Art. IV. § 2. "No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."--_Revised Statutes of the United States, I. 18._
=8. Clauses for returning fugitives in Indian treaties.=
=1789, Jan. 7.= Treaty with the Wiandots, etc. Art. I. "The said nations agree to deliver up all the prisoners now in their hands (by what means soever they may have come into their possession)."--_Statutes at Large, VII. 28._