PATROL.

1733

and riotous assemblages of coloured persons, and to apprehend
and seize all negroes and slaves, or persons of colour, whom
they may have reason to suspect have unlawfully absented
themselves from home, or have illegally emigrated from an-
other state, or are in any manner violating the laws of this
state.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
said patrol, or as many of them as are necessary, as soon as
convenient, to take all persons whom they may apprehend as
aforesaid before some justice of the peace for said county, to
be dealt with according to law.

Duty

Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That if said patrol have reason
to suspect that any runaway negro slave, or person of colour,
is concealed or harboured in any dwelling or out-house of any
coloured person, within their search, it shall be the duty of
such patrol to demand of the owner or occupant of such house
to be admitted into the same, for the purpose of making search
as aforesaid, and if the owner or occupant shall refuse to suffer
such entry and search, it shall be lawful for such patrol to use
all necessary force to effect the same, and in any action of tres-
pass or other suit brought by any owner or occupant for any
entry made in virtue of this act, the defendant shall, on the
general issue plea, have liberty to give the special matter in
evidence.

Searches.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person named in such
requisition or patrol, on being duly notified and summoned by
such justice of the peace, or by their authority, shall neglect
or refuse to obey the same, every such person so offending,
shall be subject to pay a fine not exceeding five dollars, nor
less than fifty cents, to be recovered as other small debts out of
court now are, by warrant in the name of the state, and the
money so arising to be paid over to the levy court for the use
of said county.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to establish a Patrol in Calvert
County, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-two,
chapter eighty five —1826, ch. 210.

Delin-
quents.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That each person who may be required to act as one of any
patrol, under the provisions of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, and who shall perform his duty as such, shall be
entitled to receive fifty cents for every night he may so attend.

Allowance
to patrol.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the captain or captains of
the said patrols shall return to the justices of the levy court of
Calvert county a list, under oath, of all such persons as may
have acted under his command on any such patrol, and the said
justices shall annually cause a sufficient sum of money to be

Captains to
return lists
of persons
acting
under them.