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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1788-89.

Represen-
tatives may
cede any
district, &c.

the congress of the United States, appointed to assemble at New
York on the first Wednesday of March next, be and they are
hereby authorized and required, on the behalf of this state, to
cede to the congress of the United States, any district in this
state, not exceeding ten miles square, which the congress may
fix upon and accept for the seat of government of the United
States.

CHAPTER 49.
AM ACT to empower the Governor and Council to compound with the
discoverers of British property, and for other purposes.
Adapted to a class of cases which had then taken place.

NOVEMBER, 1789.— CHAPTER 11.

*Chap. 20.

AH ACT to repeal all those parts of an act of assembly passed at
February session, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun-
dred and seventy-seven., * entitled, An act to punish certain crimes and
misdemeanors, and to prevent the growth of toryism, which make it
necessary to take, repeat and subscribe, the oath therein mentioned.

Parts of an

act repealed

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all those parts of the said act, passed at February session,
seventeen hundred and seventy seven, which direct that every
senator, delegate to congress or assembly, member of the coun-
cil, electors of the senate, and every attorney at law, and all
civil officers, and all persons holding any office of trust or profit
in this state, should take the oath therein prescribed, be and are
hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 22.

AN ACT to ascertain the mode of Trial in certain cases.
Merged in 1809, ch. 138, sec. 17, 18, and 19.

CHAPTER 86.

AN ACT to regulate the inspection of Tobacco.
Repealed by 1801, ch. 63.

CHAPTER 30.
An ACT to carry into execution a resolve of the congress of the United
States respecting the safe keeping of persons committed under the
authority of the United States to jails of this state.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it was, on the twenty-third day of September, in
the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, by a
resolve of the congress of the United States, recommended to
the legislatures of the several states to pass laws providing for
the safe keeping of all such persons as might be committed to
the jails of the several states, under the authority of the United
States ;
SEC. 2. Be U enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and it is hereby declared to be the duty of the