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1831–1851
The frame the Historical Bureau's review itself gives — no larger. The settlement was planted inside a legal frame built to discourage it, and the Bureau's review states that frame at a size this article does not enlarge (the Black History leg's whole course runs in its own later pass). In many Indiana counties a free Black settler was required to register and post a bond of $500; the review's footnote states the limit for this ground expressly: "there is no indication that St. Joseph County had such a register or that the Huggarts ever signed a register or paid a fee." Indiana's constitution of 1851 then forbade Black settlement in the state altogether — Article XIII, section 1 — which the review, quoting Thornbrough, calls "mostly unenforceable but did serve as a deterrent and a warning"; as established free Black landowners who had settled before 1851, the Huggarts were legally permitted to remain. Karst's parallel line, on Bass's 1860 purchase, stands beside it: the prohibition "was apparently not systematically enforced."