INDICTMENT alleging that a certain negro had come into the state since the 1st of September, 1831, without giving bond, &c., and that the defendant, knowing, &c., had hired him, &c. Held, that the act of 1831, entitled “An act concerning free negroes and mulattoes, servants *366and slaves,” on which the indictment was founded, is not unconstitutional. R. S. 1831, p. 375. — R. S. 1838, p. 418.— The State v. Cooper, 5 Blackf. 258.—Baptiste v. The State, Id. 283.