PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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Any person presented or indicted may submit to the court for a deci-

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sion on the whole merits — 1809, ch. 144, .....

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Such submission not considered as admitting- the fact, or charging the

person with costs, if not guilty — 1809, ch. 144 ....

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Nothing in the act concerning the amendment of judicial proceedings,

to extend to criminal cases — 1809, ch. 153, sec. 3, ...

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Regulations concerning the costs or fees of constables in criminal pro-

secutions — 1809, ch. 169, ........

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The 3d section of 1787, ch. 34, repealed, provided that there shall be

deducted from such costs the same per centage as may or shall be

paid by the levy court of any county for collecting the levy thereof

— 1811,ch. 57, .........

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Persons guilty of bribery before or on the day of elections, to be pun-

ished hy fine and imprisonment — 1811, ch. 204, ....

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See Bribery.

Any person fighting a duel wilfully and maliciously, Sec. and killing

his antagonist, or wounding him so that he die thereof within twelve

months and a day, his aiders, &c. to be on conviction, sentenced to

the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than eighteen years

—1816. ch. 219, sec.1, ........

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Any person challenging, or accepting a challenge, to fight a duel, de-

clared incapable of holding or being elected to any post of profit,

trust, or emolument, civil or military — 1816, ch. 219, sec. 2,

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County courts to give this act in charge to the grand jury, and other

arts, &c. — 1810, ch. 219, sec. 4, .... .

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Any judge or magistrate authorized, on good cause of suspicion of a

duel, to bring the parties before him, and to take a recognizance for

keeping the peace, &c. — 1816, ch. 219, sec. 5, ....

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Persons leaving the state for the purpose of eluding this law, subject to

the like penalties— 1816, ch. 219, sec. 6, .....

652

Directions to the executive for their apprehension and trial — 1816, ch.

219, sec. 6, ..........

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Convicts in the penitentiary to be admitted as witnesses, where persons

confined therein, are on trial for an offence committed while thus

confined, both for and against — 1817, ch. 72, sec. 2,

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Every person, his aiders, &c. convicted of stealing, cutting away, &c.

any buoy in the Chesapeake, or Patapsco, placed as therein men-

tioned, to be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary not ex-

ceeding seven years — 1817, ch. 86, ......

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Every person knowingly selling a servant or slave entitled to freedom

after a term of years, &c. to any person not a resident for one year

next preceding, or his agent, shall, on conviction, be sentenced to

confinement in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years

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— 1817,ch. 112, sec. 1, . .

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Same on selling such servant or slave for a longer time than he is

bound to serve — 1817, ch. 112, sec. 1, .

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Same on persons knowingly purchasing such servant or slave as de-

scribed in that section — principal or agent — 1817, ch. 112, sec. 2, .

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