PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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of the peace, &c. the proceedings to be returned to the clerk of the

county — 1831, ch. 323, sec. 7, .

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Owners or employers of, to permit prayers or religious worship on his

own land — 1831, ch. 323, sec. 7, ......

1071

The assemblage of, in Baltimore and Annapolis, for religious worship,

not to be prevented, if held in compliance with the written permis-

sion of a white ordained preacher, and dismissed before ten o'clock

at night — 1831, ch. 323, sec. 7, .......

1071

Free negroes found associating with slaves at any unlawful meeting to

be punished as slaves — 1831, ch. 323, sec. 8,

1071

Articles prohibited to be purchased of, without a certificate under a pe-

nalty of $5, for every offence, in a penalty equal in amount to the

value of the articles purchased, Sic. how to be recovered, &,c. —

1831, ch. 323, sec. 9, ........

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Sale of spirituous liquors, gunpowder, &c. to, by any person forbid,

unless in case of a free negro, who shall produce a certificate in the

nature of a license from a justice of the peace, or in case of a

slave, who shall produce written authority from his master under

a penally as above, to be received as above — 1831, ch. 323, sec. 10,

1072

Licenses to free negroes not to be granted to sell spirituous liquors, ex-

cept by order of courts, power of issuing to white persons not to be

affected, &c. Free negroes or mulattoes obtaining licenses to enter

into recognizances with such condition as courts may approve —

1831, ch, 323, sec. 11, ........

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Any free negro or mulatto convicted of a crime not punishable by

hanging, may be punished according to existing laws, or be ban-

ished— 1831, ch. 323, sec. 12, .......

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All petitions for freedom, now depending in the court of appeals, to be

heard and determined at the next June term — 1834, ch. 248, sec. 1,

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Hereafter to be heard and determined at the first term after they shall

have been entered— 1834, ch. 248, sec. 2, .

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See Negroes and Slaves.

In case of convict being ordered to be sold out of the state, under the

original act, there shall be allowed by the sheriff, Sec. making said

sale, out of the proceeds, to the officer apprehending, prosecuting,

&c. one-fourth of the proceeds of the sale — the balance he shall

pay to the state treasury — 1839, ch. 69, sec. 1,

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Children of free negroes may be bound out by the orphans court, on

the contingencies therein provided for, and to while persons, the

males until twenty-one, the females to sixteen years — the method of

making the indenture, the place of recording and the form pre-

scribed— 1839, ch. 306, ........

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Master's interest with the assent of the orphans court, assignable ; —

and to entice such apprentice to run away, the penalty is confine-

ment in the penitentiary, and if such apprentice shall abscond, the

county court to order and adjudge such apprentice to further servi-

tude — and on the death of the master, the interest in the appren-

tice to go to the widow ; and if no widow, then to the executor or

administrator, provided, that the parents shall be consulted in the