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
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person with costs, if not guilty 1809, ch. 144 ....
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Nothing in the act concerning the amendment of judicial proceedings,
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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-
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secutions 1809, ch. 169, ........
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The 3d section of 1787, ch. 34, repealed, provided that there shall be
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deducted from such costs the same per centage as may or shall be
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paid by the levy court of any county for collecting the levy thereof
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1811,ch. 57, .........
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Persons guilty of bribery before or on the day of elections, to be pun-
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ished hy fine and imprisonment 1811, ch. 204, ....
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See Bribery.
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Any person fighting a duel wilfully and maliciously, Sec. and killing
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his antagonist, or wounding him so that he die thereof within twelve
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months and a day, his aiders, &c. to be on conviction, sentenced to
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the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than eighteen years
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1816. ch. 219, sec.1, ........
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Any person challenging, or accepting a challenge, to fight a duel, de-
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clared incapable of holding or being elected to any post of profit,
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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
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arts, &c. 1810, ch. 219, sec. 4, .... .
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Any judge or magistrate authorized, on good cause of suspicion of a
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duel, to bring the parties before him, and to take a recognizance for
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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
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the like penalties 1816, ch. 219, sec. 6, .....
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Directions to the executive for their apprehension and trial 1816, ch.
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219, sec. 6, ..........
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Convicts in the penitentiary to be admitted as witnesses, where persons
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confined therein, are on trial for an offence committed while thus
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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.
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any buoy in the Chesapeake, or Patapsco, placed as therein men-
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tioned, to be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary not ex-
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ceeding seven years 1817, ch. 86, ......
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Every person knowingly selling a servant or slave entitled to freedom
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after a term of years, &c. to any person not a resident for one year
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next preceding, or his agent, shall, on conviction, be sentenced to
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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
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bound to serve 1817, ch. 112, sec. 1, .
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Same on persons knowingly purchasing such servant or slave as de-
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scribed in that section principal or agent 1817, ch. 112, sec. 2, .
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