LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 281.

(under a penalty of ten dollars for each and every omission

so to do, to be iccovered before any justice of the peace,

one half whereof shall go to the informer and the other

Half to the state;) an extract from such deed or will, stating

the names, number and ages of the slave or slaves so man-

umitted, (a list whereof, in the case of a will so proved,

shall be filed therewith, by the executor or administrator)

to the board of managers for Maryland, for removing the

people of color of said state; and it shall be the duty of

Board to notify

y the said board, on receiving the same, to notify the Ameri-

colonization socie-

ty

can Colonization Society, or the Maryland State Coloniza-

tion Society thereof, and to propose to such society that

they shall engage, at the expense of such society, to re-

move said slave or slaves so manumitted to Liberia; and if

the said society shall so engage, then it shall be the duty of

the said board of managers to have the said slave or slaves

If they will re-

delivered to the agent of such society, at such place as the

move, the person
shall be delivered

said society shall appoint, for receiving such slave or slaves,

over

for the purpose of such removal, at such time as the said

society shall appoint; and in case the said society shall re-

And if they refuse
to go to Liberia.

fuse so to receive and remove the person or persons so

manumitted and offered, or in case the said person or per-

sons shall refuse so to be removed, then it shall be the duty

of the said board of managers to remove the said person

or persons to such other place or places, beyond the limits

of this state, as the said board shall approve of, and the said

person or persons shall be willing to go to, and to provide

The board to
remove them to

for their reception and support, such place or places as the

wherever they may
select

said board may think necessary, until they shall be able to

provide for themselves out of any money that may be earn-

ed by their hire, or may be otherwise provided for that

purpose; and in case the said person or persons shall refuse

It they refuse to

to be removed to any place, beyond the limits of this state,

quit the state.

and shall persist in remaining therein, then it shall be the

Sheriff to be

duty of said board to inform the sheriff of the county

notified

wherein such person or persons may be, of such refusal,

and it shall thereupon be the duty of the said sheriff forth-

with to arrest or cause to be arrested the said person or

persons so refusing to emigrate from this state, and trans-

Who shall trans.
port said person.

port the said person or persons beyond the limits of this

state; and all slaves shall be capable of receiving manumis-

Any slave may be

sion, for the purpose of removal as aforesaid, with their

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