JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1833.

on the assessable property of said counties, by an net passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,
chapter one hundred and fifty-one, for the purpose of re-
pairing the bridge herein before mentioned, shall be col-
lected and paid over by the commissioners of Baltimore
and Anne Arundel counties respectively, to the commis-
sioners herein named, to be applied by them to the repair
of the said bridge, according to the true intent and mean-
ing of this act.

CHAP. 274.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-
two, chapter one hundred and fifty one, as are inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, be and the same ar e hereby
repealed.

Repeal

CHAPTER 274.

An act, entitled, an act, making it penal to sett a certain de-
scription of property, under certain circumstances.

Passed Mar. 15,1834

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whenever an action of replevin, shall fa e brought
in this state, and the property in dispute shall be any mu-

In case of replevy
of a negro, &c

latto, negro or negro slave, it shall not be lawful for either
plaintiff or defendant, or any other person in whose posses-
sion such mulatto, negro or negro slave shall be, to sell
such mulatto, negro or negro slaves, until such action of
replevin shall first have been detemined, and any sale
thus made shall be void, unless an order of the court au-
thorising such sale, be first had and obtained.

Sale prohibited

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That every person, his or her
counsellors, aiders or abettors, who shall be duly convicted
of selling or transporting such mulatto, negro or negro
slave, beyond the limits of this state, before the final deci-
sipn of said action of replevin, or without an order of the
court as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and

Deemed felony

shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the peni-
tentiary, for a period of time, not less than two nor more

Punishment

than ten years, to be treated as the law directs; Provided
nevertheless, this second section shall not extend to any
person or persons, who by the finding of the jury in such
action of replevin, shall be determined to be the rightful
owner or owners of such mulatto, negro or negro slave.

Proviso