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Chapter XXIX: Section II

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I. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges
and immunities of citizens in the several states.

II. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other
crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state,
shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he
fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having the
jurisdiction of the crime.

III. No person, held to service or labour 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 labour, but
shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or
labour may be due.

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