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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1832.

CHAPTER 317.
A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Free Negroes and
Slaves, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one,
chapter three hundred and twenty-three.
See notes to the preceding law, and to 1796, ch. 67, ante page 334.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the introduction of slaves into this state, except
in a few specified cases, has been and ought to be prohibited ;
And whereas, a wise and consistent policy demands that spe-
cial acts of legislation, on that subject, should be avoided, and
that all cases of hardship, justly entitled to relief, be embraced
under some general principles in a single law ; therefore,

Not con-
strued to
prohibit
slaves hired
out, &c.
from re-
turning.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That nothing in any former act shall be construed to prohibit
any person from again bringing into this state any slave, for
life, who shall have been or may hereafter be taken from this
state and hired or lent to service in any adjoining state or dis-

Proviso.

trict for a limited time ; Provided, that no such slave shall be
introduced into this state by any person, other than an actual
inhabitant of this state, who shall also be the owner of such
slave, both at the time of hiring or lending aforesaid and of
bringing back the said slave ; or, in case of the death of the
original owner, by his heirs, executors, administrators, or
legatees.

Persons
having pre-
viously pur-
chased land
&c. to re-
side thereon

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any
person or persons, who may have, previously to the passage of
| this act, purchased land in this state, with the bona fide inten-
tion of residing thereon, or acquired by inheritance or other-
wise, real estate, in this state, and intending to reside thereon,

May intro-
duce sJavef
then owned.
Proviso.
Lists re-
corded.

to introduce into the state, any slave owned by them, at the
passage of the act to which this is a supplement ; Provided, a
list of said slaves, specifying their ages, names, and sex, be
left for record with the clerk of the county court of the county
into which they are so removed, within thirty days thereafter,
together with the affidavit of the owner or owners, that the con-
ditions required by this section have been truly complied with,
and that they are not introduced for sale, and are slaves for life.

Parsons re-
siding in the
District of
Columbia,
&c. and
holding real
estate in
Maryland
may bring
to said es-
tate slaves.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any per-
son or persons, residing in that part of the District of Columbia,
ceded by the state of Maryland, to the United States, and hold-
ing real estate in Maryland, to bring from their residence, in the
said part of the District, to their estate in Maryland, any slave
or slaves and their increase, being slaves for life, which belonged
to the said person or persons, and which said slaves resided either
in that part of the District aforesaid, or in Maryland, antecedent

Removing
for a limited
period to
the District

to the passage of this act ; and that it shall be lawful for any

resident of Maryland who has removed, or may hereafter re-
move to the District for a limited period, to carry with him, her