The Fugitive Slave Act chief reason was to track fugitive slaves who had runaway to northern states, capture them, and subsequently return them to their appropriate southern owners. This law put fugitive slave cases beneath the elite specialist of the Joined together States Federal Government. Profoundly prepared and specialized government authorities were authorized to issue warrants and captures for the runaway slaves, in any case, numerous slaves were brutally beaten, whipped, or assaulted by the government authorities. Moreover, any slave that had been captured by an official and claimed to be free (a common occurrence), was denied the correct of a reasonable trial by jury. In any case, commissioners would be paid five dollars on the off