LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1835.

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the petition of any petitioner as aforesaid, shall be pending fee-
fore them, in the place of any county court as aforesaid, and to
Baltimore county court, when the case of such petitioner shall
have been transmitted to such court

Baltimore
county
court.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That before a surrender shall be
allowed as aforesaid, notice shall bo given as shall be prescribed
by a judge of the court as aforesaid, or one of the said commis-
sioners, to the trustee of the said petitioners, and to any creditor
of such petitioner, if he shall have named any creditor upon
the schedule with his petition.

Previous
notice re-
quired of
security.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the surety so surrendering a
petitioner, shall be bound to pay the allowance for maintenance
of said petitioner while in custody aforesaid, which plaintiffs
are required to pay toward maintenance of defendant in prison,

And pay-
ment of
expenses.

and if by reason of any default in the premises of such surety,
the said petitioner shall be discharged, (which he may be as
defendants aforesaid may,) the said surety shall be liable upon
the bond aforesaid, as if no surrender had taken place.

Whilst in

custody.

DECEMBER, 1835.— CHAPTER 61.
A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, a Supplement to an Act
relating to Free Negroes and Slaves.
See 1796, ch. 67, ante page 334.

WHEREAS, by the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-three,
chapter eighty-seven, to which this is a supplement, it is provi-
ded that any citizen of this state, who has acquired, or who may
hereafter acquire by marriage or bequest, or in course of distri-
bution, in another state, district or territory, any slave or slaves,
being slaves for life, may bring the same into this state ; And
whereas, the said act has made no provision for slaves acquired
by gift, and it is deemed right and proper that such provision
should be made; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful
for any citizen of this state, who has acquired, or may hereafter

Persons
acquiring
slaves by
gift.

acquire by gift, in any state, district or territory, any slave or
slaves, being slaves for life, to introduce the same into this

May import

state ; Provided, such citizen shall comply in all respects with
the requisites of the act to which this is a supplement.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in every case of gift, as autho-
rized by this act, that the donor shall make the same known
in writing, upon oath, that the said gift is bona fide made,
which instrument of writing shall be filed with the clerk of the
county in which the said property may be received, and by the

Oath and
record
required.

clerk to be made a matter of record ; and no slave, or their de- ;
scendants, introduced into Maryland by virtue of the provisions '
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Manumis-
sion of such