Frank ads.

OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Bibb.

These cast s depend on the same principle, and the decision in one must be the decision in all. The paupers suing for their freedom in the court below had judgments respectively in their favor. Their mother, Sibley, was a slave in the state of Pennsylvania, previous to the passage of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, and was afterwards duly registered according to the requisitions and previsions of that act, whereby she would have remained a slave for life, even in the state of Pennsylvania, any thing in that act notwithstanding. She was…