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1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 33.

all other things required of them by this law, they shall make
out a copy of their proceedings, setting forth in the same a full
description of the land by them valued for the establishment of
the light-house as aforesaid, together with the road to the same,
and all other matters and things connected with the said valuation,
and the performance of the duties assigned to them by this act,
and to the said copy, fairly written out, they shall subscribe their
names and thereto set their seals, and they shall deposit the same
in the office of the clerk of Baltimore county court, and the clerk
of the said court ahull preserve a record of the said proceedings,
for the recording of which he shall be entitled to the same fee
which he receives for other records.

Passed Jan. 6, 1821.

Judges for Somer-
set allowed two
dollars per day.

CHAP. XXXIV.

An Act, entitled, A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to increase the Pay
of the Judges of the Orphans Court for the several Counties therein men-
tioned.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from
and after the passage of this act, each judge of the orphans court
of Somerset county be, and he is hereby entitled to receive, in
lieu of his present per diem, the sum of two dollars only, for each
days attendance, and that all such parts of the act to which this
is a supplement, and of any other act or acts which are inconsis-
tent herewith, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Passed Jan 3, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. XXXV.

An Act for the Relief of Richard W. West, of Prince-George's County.
WHEREAS Richard W. West, of Prince-George's county, by
his petition to this general assembly hath set forth, that in the
year eighteen hundred and eighteen, he loaned to Ariana Sim,
then residing in George-town, in the District of Columbia, a
mulatto girl named Chloe Anne, the slave of the said Richard
W. West; that the said mulatto girl, who is now about the age of
twelve years, hath ever since continued in the service of the said
Ariana Sim, upon the terms above mentioned: And whereas the
said Ariana Sim, about the month of September last past, re-
moved to the Town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia,
and took with her, by the consent of the said Richard W. West,
the said mulatto girl: And whereas this general assembly are
satisfied that the above facts stated are true, and doubts are en-
tertained, whether, under the existing laws of this state, the said
mulatto girl can be brought back to this state without entitling
her to her freedom;

Authorised to re-
move a negro girl
into the state.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it
shall and may be lawful for the said Richard W. West, his exe-
cutor or administrator, at any time within twelve months after
the passage of this law, to bring into this state the said mulatto
girl named Chloe Anne, and to have and hold the said mulatto
girl as a slave, as fully and amply as if she had never been re-
moved from this state, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Passed Jan. 6, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. XXXVI.

An Act to prevent Swine and Geese going at large in Middle Town, in Freder-
ick County.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by sundry
inhabitants of Middle Town, in Frederick county, that they suf-



 
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