90 LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1749-50.
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MAY, 1749.—CHAPTER 12.
An ACT for taking off corporal punishment inflicted on females having
base-born children, and other purposes therein mentioned.
SEC. 1, 2, 3, 4. Repeated by 1785, ch. 47.
SEC. 5. The power to the minister and church-wardens to cite and
admonish, pro salute amimae, has ceased since the revolution. See 1781,
ch. 13. |
Part of an
act repeal-
ed. |
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, by the authority, advice
and consent aforesaid, That so much of an act of assembly of
this province, made at a session of assembly begun and held at
the city of Annapolis on the twenty-sixth day of April, in the
year seventeen hundred and fifteen, entitled, an act for punish-
ing the offences of adultery and fornication, as relates to corpo-
ral punishment for fornication, be and is hereby repealed.
MAY, 1750—CHAPTER 5.
AN ACT to remedy some Evils relating to Servants. |
Servants
offending,
to serve,
&c. |
Be it enacted, by the right honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the advice and consent of his lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the authority
of the same, That from and after the end of this session of
assembly, where any servant or servants now imported, or
which hereafter shall be imported into this province, shall by
his, her or their evil doings or actions, commit such offence or
offences, where by the laws they subject him, her or themselves
to imprisonment, that in such case such servant or servants
shall, and he, she or they, are hereby obliged to serve the
master or masters, mistress or mistresses of such servant or
servants, day for day, and no more, such master or masters,
mistress or mistresses, shall lose of his, her or their service, by
such imprisonment. |
And make
satisfaction,
&c. |
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if by the evil doing or
actions of such servant or servants, he, she or they, shall be
fined for the breach of the peace, or any law of this province,
at any time after the end of this session, and that the master or
masters, mistress or mistresses of such servant or servants pay
such fine, such servant or servants shall make satisfaction by
service, or otherwise, at the expiration of their first time of ser-
vitude, for such fine or fines. |
Justices to
determine
disputes,
&c. |
SEC. 3. And be it likewise enacted, That the several and
respective justices of the several and respective county courts
within this province, where the case shall happen, shall and
they are hereby obliged and directed to hear and determine any
dispute that may arise between the master or masters, mistress
or mistresses, and such servant or servants, in relation to the |
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