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to compel compliance, term of binding out not to exceed sixteen

years in females, and twenty-one years in males, and out of the

county where convicted — 1831, ch. 208, sec. 2, .

1025

In cases where recognizances to prosecute, &c. before presentment

have been entered into, courts on motion of attorney-general, with

consent of parlies, required to compromise any assault and bat-

tery, party accused paying costs — 1831, ch. 208, sec. 3,

1025

Any person who maliciously sets fire to, and burns any untenanted

dwelling-house, shall upon conviction be confined in the peniten-

tiary for a term not less than two, nor more than ten years — 1831,

ch. 208, sec. 4, ..........

1025

Baltimore city court to exercise jurisdiction, &c. — 1831, ch. 208, sec, 5,

1025

Any free negro or mulatto convicted of any crime which may not be

punished by hanging, may in the discretion of the court be sen-

tenced to the penalties now provided for, or be banished — 1831,

ch. 323, sec. 12, .........

1068

Persons resisting sheriff when pressing steamboat, for the purpose of

arresting offenders against the oyster laws, declared guilty of a mis-

demeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment — 1833, ch. 254,

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

1125

In actions of replevin, where the property is a negro, person selling

such, to be deemed guilty of a felony, and to be punished by con-

finement in the penitentiary — 1833, ch. 274. sec. 2,

1129

Persons forging or counterfeiting any certificate of stock of this state,

or letter of attorney, for the transfer thereof, to be deemed guilty

of felony— 1834, ch. 279, sec. 2, ......

1181

The 8th sec. of the act of April session, 1715, ch. 26, relative to the

payment of fees by persons charged with criminal offences, re-

pealed— 1834, ch. 286, ........

1182

Any person who shall enter any dwelling-house, out-house, stable,

barn, ware-house, store-house, banking-house, factory, work-shop,

court-house, church, mill-house, &c. or upon any vessel or yard,

where any lumber, coal, or any sort of goods are deposited, &c.

with intent maliciously to destroy any part thereof, or to slay, kill,

maim, or tar and feather any person, being in or upon any such pre-

mises, shall, upon conviction, be confined in the penitentiary not

less than two, nor more than twenty years — 1835, ch. 200, sec. 1,

1196

County courts to have jurisdiction over such cases — 1835, ch. 200,

sec. 2, ...........

1196

Upon conviction of any free negro or mulatto, county court to inquire

whether such negro has been previously sentenced to the peniten-

tiary, and if he has, court to order such negro to be sold for a term

of years, beyond the limits of the state— 1835, ch. 200, sec. 3,

1196

The proceeds of sale, after defraying the expenses of prosecution, tc

be paid into the state treasury — 1835, ch. 200, sec. 3, .

1196

One moiety of the fines and forfeitures accruing in Baltimore city court,

shall be paid to the mayor and city council, and out of the fund the

judges may order not exceeding $30 in any one case, to he paid to