...held, that the constitutional provision, which declares that the General Assembly "shall have power to pass laws to permit the owners of slaves to emancipate...of creditors, and preventing them from becoming a public charge," was a clear delegation of authority to the Legislature, to regulate by law the emancipation...

...any territory thereof, in contravention of any existing statute of the United States; and, Fourth, To permit the owners of slaves to emancipate them, saving the rights of creditors, niei-e the person so emancipating will give security that the slave so emancipated shall not become...