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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1833.

*1715, ch.
47.

CHAPTER 68.
A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,*entitled, an Act for Quieting
Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and Securing the Estates of Pur-
chasers.

Deeds
confirmed.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all deeds or instruments of writing, which have been taken,
executed and acknowledged, within this state, since the first day
of September last, which may not have been certified by the
takers of the acknowledgments of said deeds or instruments of
writing, as required by the act of December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and five, be, and
the same are hereby confirmed and made valid, to all intents
and purposes ; Provided, that in all other respects the said deeds
or instruments of writing have been executed, acknowledged
and recorded in conformity with the laws relating to the subject
at that time in force in this state.

CHAPTER 87.
A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Free
Negroes and Slaves.
See notes to the original law, 1796, ch. 67, ante page 334; and 1835,
ch, 61.

Persons so
situated*

SEC. 1. Be it enacted \ by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be lawful for any citizen of this state who has
acquired or may hereafter acquire by marriage or bequest, or in
course of distribution in another state, district or territory, any
slave or slaves being slaves for life, or any person or persons
who reside, or may have resided, out of the state, and who
may remove, or have removed into the same, with a bona fide

May intro-
duce slaves,
("acquired)

intention of becoming a citizen thereof, to introduce into the
state any slave or slaves owned or so required* by them ; Pro-
vided, the person so removing, sh^ll within thirty days after the
removal of such slave or slaves into the state, make affidavit
before some justice of the peace of the county into which he or
she may remove, and have the same filed in the office of the
clerk of the county court of said county, of his or her intention

Proviso —
oath—list
and record.

to become a citizen of the state ; And provided also, chat the
person so removing or acquiring, shall within the time aforesaid
file with the said clerk, a list or lists of the said slave or slaves so
removed, stating their ages, with an affidavit thereto attached,
that the same is a true and faithful list or lists of the said slaves
so removed ; and that he or she hath not removed the same into
the state for the purpose of sale, and that they are slaves for

Payment
required.

life ; And provided also, that the sum of fifteen dollars for each
slave, between the age of twelve and forty-five years of age,
and the sum of five dollars for each slave above the age of forty-
five, and under twelve years of age, so brought into the state,