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LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1839.

	A further SUPPLEMENT to chapter two hundred and eighty-one of Decem- ber session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled, an Act relating to the People of Colour in this Slate.— 1839, ch. 309.
Commis- sioners to levy a cer- tain amount on Carroll Co.	SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the tax of Carroll county to levy upon the assessable property in the said county, and cause to be duly collected and paid into the western shore treasury, two hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighteen cents of the sums heretofore by the said original act directed to be levied in Frederick and Baltimore counties, together with the interest on the whole which shall have been in arrear, it being the residue of Carroll county's proportion thereof for the years 1837 and 1838, unprovided for by chapter 269, of the acts of December session, 1838.
Certain amount to be levied yearly.	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from the year 1839, for the current and each future year, the commissioners of the tax of Carroll county, shall levy upon the assessable property in the said county, and cause to be collected and paid into the western shore treasury yearly, on or before the day in that behalf limited by law, the sum of four hundred and thirty-nine dol- lars and fifty-two cents for each year, as the proportion pro- perly chargeable upon so much of Frederick and Baltimore counties, as now constitute Carroll county.
Amount to be drawn yearly by state colo- nization society.	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the sum or sums of money which it shall be lawful hereafter for the treasurer of the western shore, in pursuance of the second section of the origi- nal act, to which this is a further supplement, to pay to the board of managers of the state colonization or their order, shall not together exceed ten thousand dollars in the current or any future fiscal year of this state.
Repeal.	SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That all acts heretofore passed in relation to payments by Carroll county on account of the colonization tax, be and the same are hereby repealed. A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act concerning Crimes and Punishments, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and nine, chapter one hundred and thirty-eight. — 1839, ch. 316.
Preamble.	WHEREAS, the provisions of the original act and the several supplements thereto, in relation to crimes and punishments in this state, conflict with each other as to the extent of confine- ment in the penitentiary in certain cases ; therefore, with a view to reconcile the same,
Courts may sentence couvicts to penitentiary for not less than eigh- teen mouths	Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the several county courts of this state, and the city court of Baltimore, in sentencing convicts to the penitentiary in com- pliance with the provisions of the act of December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, chapter one hundred and