Georgia. General Assembly.,(1840). Resolutions of the General Assembly of Georgia: in favor of so amending the Constitution of the United States as to authorize circuit judges of the United States to surrender fugitives from justice. [Washington]: Blair & Rives, printers. March 11, 1840. United States, Congress | Senate | Committee on the Judiciary UUID: ae95f54b-54e0-4abf-9393-13dfe348d7d3 MS/146 Slavery Papers, Speeches, and Manuscripts http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2207z Georgia. General Assembly.,(1840). Resolutions of the General Assembly of Georgia: in favor of so amending the Constitution of the United States as to authorize circuit judges of the United States to surrender fugitives from justice. [Washington]: Blair & Rives, printers. March 11, 1840. United States, Congress | Senate | Committee on the Judiciary UUID: ae95f54b-54e0-4abf-9393-13dfe348d7d3 MS/146 Slavery Papers, Speeches, and Manuscripts http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2207 This 1840 document from the General Assembly of Georgia sought to empower United States circuit judges the jurisdiction so that "[those] who shall flee from justice and be found in another State, shall, on demand...be delivered up...to the State having jurisdiction of the crime." This document appears to be an antecedent of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.