CONSTABLES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

CONSTITUTION

—Directed to repair once a month, and oftener on
information of tumultuous meetings of negroes, &c. at
all suspected places,
—If free mulattoes or negroes are found at such
meetings, to carry them before a justice,
—Authorised and required to whip slaves, not belonging
to the place, or having permission in writing,
from their owner or overseers,
    To entitle constables to the allowance under the 4th
section of the act of 1723, ch. 15, they must produce a
certificate from two respectable citizens of their industry,
&c. in discharge of their duty,
    The allowance of 200 lb. Tobacco for taking up runaways
under the act of 1715, ch. 44, changed to 6 dollars,
    Constables on serving ca. sa bound to accept payment,
—Plaintiffs to have the same remedy against them,
as on writs of fieri facias,
    Citations may be issued to constables to bring before
the orphans courts, (and in their recess the trustees of
the poor or any two justices,) the children of paupers,
vagrants, and indolent free negroes, to be bound out as
apprentices,
    Costs allowed on serving warrants in criminal prosecutions,
—In cases of acquittal, to be levied on the county, &c.
    Constables in Talbot county—fees on executions regulated,
    Duties of constables as to militia fines, &c.

—Penalty on their selling state arms,
    A constable to be annually appointed for the town of
Brookville, in Montgomery county—to give bond,
&c.
    Constables fees for summoning a jury of inquest,
    Penalty on justices granting blank warrants or executions
to constables,
    Fees to constables in the city of Baltimore,

    The constitution as established by 1798, ch. 115,
and 1799, ch. 48, changed as to the number of election
districts in Frederick county,
    All and every part of the constitution, which related
to the court of appeals and the general court, or
the judges thereof, or inconsistent with this act, annulled,
and the alterations and amendments therein
contained to be valid as a part of the constitution,

   The constitution changed as to election districts
in Saint Mary's county,

    On the death, resignation, or removal out of this
state, of the governor, it shall not be necessary to
call a meeting of the legislature, to fill the vacancy,
but the first named of the council shall qualify and
act as governor, until the next meeting of the assembly,
at which a governor shall be chosen,
—So much of the 32d and 37th articles of the constitution
as is repugnant to or inconsistent with this act,
abolished,
    No person residing in the city of Annapolis shall
have a vote in the county of Anne-Arundel for delegates
for the said county, and all and every part of
the constitution, (article 4th) which enabled persons
holding fifty acres of land to vote in said county abolished,
    The forty-fifth article of the constitution, (that no
field officer of the militia shall be eligible as a senator,
delegate, or member of the council,) abolished,

  1806       81    3

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  1807      115

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  1808        4
  1809      169
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  1810      106
  1811      182  27
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May 1813 20
  1816      142

  1818      166    2
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  1802        82
Confirmed by
  1803        19

  1804        55
Confirmed by
  1805        16

  1806        29
Confirmed by
  1807          8

June 1809    16
Confirmed by
  1809        11
 
 

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  1809        38
Confirmed by
  1810        49

  1809        65
Confirmed by
  1810        78