iii, iv, and v; Dunn, _Indiana_, pp.

218-260; Hinsdale, _Old Northwest_, pp.
351-358.] [Footnote 25: This code provided that all male Negroes under fifteen, years of age either owned or acquired must remain in servitude until they reached the age of thirty-five and female slaves until thirty-two.

The male children of such persons held to service could be bound out for thirty years and the female children for twenty-eight.

Slaves brought into the territory had to comply with contracts for terms of service when their master registered them within thirty days from the time he brought them into the territory.

Indentured black servants were not exactly sold, but the law permitted the transfer from one owner to another when the slave acquiesced in the transfer before a notary, but it was often done without regard to the slave.