117.     Brackett, supra note 1 237-8. Roger Taney was one of the senate members of that
committee.

118.     John E. Semmes. John H. B. Latrobe and his Times 1803-1891 143-4 (1917).

119.    Maryland Laws 1831 Ch. 314.

120.     Maryland Laws 1831 Ch. 281 §1. The law was passed March 12, 1832, two days before
passage of the charter for the Maryland State Colonization Society.

121.     Id §3. The provisions did not apply to anyone freed by will admitted to probate or deed
executed before the date of the statute even if the freedom were to take effect after the
date of the statute.

122.     Id §4.	.                           .

123.     Id §5.

124.     Maryland Laws 1832 Ch. 296 (validating a variety of measures for freeing slaves that had
been agreed but not finally recorded prior to the statute as creating freedom without being
subject to forced emigration if subsequently recorded within a grace period - e.g.
acknowledged deeds not yet recorded §1, deeds of sale for term and then freedom not
attested or recorded §2, deeds attested by only one witness §3, agreements by slave to
purchase own freedom that has been partially paid §4); Maryland Laws 1832 Ch. 145
(fining sheriff for neglecting to remove freed slave when Board informed him and
provided the expenses of removal); Maryland Laws 1833 Ch. 284 (validating deeds not
recorded and not attested although acknowledged before justice of the peace); Maryland
Laws 1834 Ch. 197 (noting that the tax levy for colonization had in many counties not yet
been levied, stating that the imposition was an "absolute duty"); Maryland Laws 1837 Ch.
275 (adjusting tax levy provisions to deal with the erection of Carroll county out of
Baltimore and Frederick counties); Maryland Laws 1838 Ch. 269 (further adjustment of
levy on Frederick); Maryland Laws 1839 Ch. 5 (permitting free blacks to obtain a licence
to travel to Trinidad or British Guiana to decide whether to settle there without forfeiting
the right to return to Maryland); Maryland Laws 1854 Ch. 234 ($10,000 appropriation to
African colonization for 1854); Ch. 309 ($10,000 appropriation to African colonization
for 1855).

125.	Brackett, supra note 1 at 166.

126.	Id at 249.

127.	John H. B. Latrobe, Maryland in Liberia 16 cited in Brackett, supra note 1 at 166n.2.

128.	Semmes, supra note 59 at 143-50.

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