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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of February, eighteen hundred and
ten, if any negro or mulatto female slave, by testament or last
will, or deed of manumission, shall be declared to be free after any
given period of service, or at any stipulated age, or upon the performance
of any condition, or on the event of any contingency, it
shall be lawful for the person making such last will and testament,
or executing such deed of manumission, to fix and determine in
the same the state and condition of the issue that may be born of
such negro or mulatto female slave during their period of service. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 171.
Persons manumitting
slaves after a
certain period or
event may determine
the condition
of issue born before. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person after
the first day
of February aforesaid, shall make a last will and testament, or
execute any deed of manumission, whereby any negro or mulatto
female slave shall be declared free after a service for years, or at
any specified age, or upon the performance of any condition, or
on the event of any contingency, and such person, in their said
last will and testament, or deed of manumission, shall not fix or
limit the state and condition of the issue that may be born of such
negro or mulatto female slave, that then the state and condition of
such issue shall be that of a slave, any law, usage or custom, to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
If they do not determine
their condition,
issue to be
slaves. |
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CHAP. CLXXII.
An Act to continue certain Acts of Assembly. Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol.
389. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1810. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
all and every act or acts of assembly, which are limited by law
to continue to the end of the present session of assembly, or which
would expire during the same, or before the end of the next general
assembly, be and they are hereby severally continued until the
thirty-first day of October next, and until the end of the next session
of assembly, unless such as are repugnant to, or inconsistent
with, any law which may have passed during the present session of
assembly, and subject to any alterations which may have been
made therein; Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed
to extend to the act of assembly passed at November session, in
the year eighteen hundred and eight*, entitled, A further supplement
to the act, entitled, An act for regulating the mode of staying
executions, and repealing the acts of assembly therein mentioned,
and for other purposes, or to the several supplements to
the said original act, passed at the same session †, and at June session,
eighteen hundred and nine ‡. |
Acts continued.
Proviso.
* Ch. 19.
† Ch. 115.
‡ Ch. 15. |
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CHAP. CLXXIII.
An Act for the relief of William Boller, of Frederick County.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 390. A Private Act. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1810. |
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CHAP. CLXXIV.
An Act to lay out a Road in Baltimore County. Lib. TH.
No. 2,
fol. 391. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1810. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the
part of the old road leading from Woolf's tavern to Merryman's
tavern, is on very bad ground, and very expensive to the county to
keep it in repair, and if the route was changed, so that it might |
Preamble. |
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