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drawal of any license or licenses to retail ardent spirits, and
may, on application or remonstrance, exercise a sound discre-
tion relative thereto, and in the recess of the county court, and

licenses for
selling.

Baltimore city court, the judges of the orphans cottrt, at their
several sessions, shall and may exercise a similar power, autho-
rity and discretion, and no license to retail ardent spirits, shall
hereafter be granted to any free negro or mulatto, except by
order or under the authority of said courts, or one of them, at
their respective sessions as above; Provided, that this act shall
not be so construed as to take from the clerks of ttie county
courts, or of Baltimore city court, the power of issuing license to
any free white person, nor to effect or alter the dates or time of
issuing or granting licenses as now provided by few; but no
license shall be issued by said clerk to any person from whom a
license shall once have been withdrawn by order of court as above

Similar
power to
orphans
courts.
Negroes
not to have
licenses to
sell spirits.
Explanato-
ry proviso.

provided, except with the permission of the court: Provided
also, that such negro of mulatto so obtaining a license as above,
shall enter into recognizance with such sureties and in such
condition and penalty as the said courts or either of them shall
approve.

Further
proviso.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That if any free negro or mulatto
shall be convicted of any crime committed after the passage of
this act, which may not, under the laws of this state, be pun-
ished by hanging by the neck, such free negro or mulatto may,
in the discretion of the court, be sentenced to the penalties and
punishments now provided by law, or be banished from this
state by transportation into some foreign country.

Negroes
convicted
of crimes
not capital,
may be
punished
according
to existing
laws, or
banished
the state.

DECEMBER, 1832.— CHAPTER 40.

AN ACT to explain an Act of Assembly, passed at December session
eighteen hundred a Ad thirty-one, chapter three hundred and twenty-
three, entitled, 'an Act relating to Free Negroes and Slaves.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
nothing contained in the act of assembly, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter three hundred
and twenty-three, entitled, 'an act relating to free negroes and
slaves,' shall be taken or construed in any manner to apply to,
or to prohibit any person of persons from importing, removing,
or again bringing into this state any negro, mulatto, or other
slave, which shall have been, or may hereafter be taken from
this state, and hired to service, in any adjoining state, district or

Original
act not to
extend to
cases of
slaves hired
&c.

territory for a limited time ; Provided, no such negro, mulatto,
or other slave, shall, under any pretext whatever, be introduced
or brought into this state by any person other than an actual;
inhabitant of this state, who shall also be the owner and pro-
prietor of such slave, both at the time of the hiring or letting
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Proviso,