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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1785.

indemnify such county from any charge for the maintenance of
such child or children.

Constable
to make
information
&c.

SEC. 3. And, to the end that the several counties within this
state may more effectually be secured from the burthen of main-
taining illegitimate children, Be it enacted, That every consta-
ble shall, as often as he may have knowledge of any free woman
having an illegitimate child within his hundred, make informa-
tion thereof to the next, or some justice of the peace for his
county, upon which information, or the matter coming to his
own knowledge, such justice is hereby required to proceed as
by the act above recited, and this act, is directed.

Part of two
acts re-
pealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted^ That two acts of assembly, made,
the one at a session of assembly begun and held at the city of
Annapolis in the year seventeen hundred and fifteen, entitled,

*Chap. 27.

*an act for punishing the offences of adultery and fornication,
the other, at a session of assembly begun and held at the city
of Annapolis the twenty-fourth day of May, in the year seven-

t Chap. 12.

teen hundred and forty-nine, entitled, t an act for taking off cor-
poral punishment inflicted on females having base born children,
and other purposes therein mentioned, so far as the said acts
respect the proceedings against persons guilty of fornication, be
and are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER *49.
AN ACT to declare and ascertain the right of citizens of this state to private
roads or ways.
Repealed by 1834, ch. 253; a supplement 1832, ch. 292.

CHAPTER 53.

AN ACT to ascertain the value of the land in the several counties of this
state for the purpose of laying the public assessment.
This law, has lost its general operation, by the various local enactments,
prescribing rule for the assessment and valuation of real and personal pro-
perty, which will be found under the subdivision of 'Public Local Law,'
and will be distributed to the couaties on which it now operates.

CHAPTER 66.

AR ACT ascertaining the mode of granting titles to the purchasers of certain
confiscated property.
SEC. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5* apply to a class of cases occuring before the passage
of this law.

Reserves
taken off,
Etc.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all reserves made of any
land in this state, for which no patent ever issued, (except only
the feserve to the westward of Fort Cumberland, and the
reserves of the city of Annapolis and Baltimore-town, shall be
taken off, and any land within the said reserves may be taken
up as other vacant land, at the price of seven shillings and six-
pence current money per acre,* or at such other price as such