PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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A justice of the peace may be eligible as a senator, delegate or member

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of the council, and continue to act as a justice of the peace —

Const, art. 44.

Justices of the orphans court may act as justices of the peace — 1798,

ch. 101, sub ch. 15, sec. 6, ......

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Oath to be taken by the justices, and how to be certified and recorded

—Feb. 1777, ch. 5, .........

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Justices empowered to observe the demeanor of persons before them,

and to fine them for indecent behaviour and contempt of their

authority — 1719, ch. 4, sec. 3, .......

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Justices not exempted from serving as jurors — 1797, ch. 87, sec. 6, .

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One justice may adjudge persons taken up and brought before him to

be runaways, and may secure them — 1715, ch. 44, sec. 6, 9, 20, .

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May bind over persons dealing with servants and not being able to pay

the fine— 1715, ch. 44, sec. 13, .......

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May order the correction of servants brought before him by their mas-

ters— 1715, ch. 44, sec. 21, .......

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May order any negro to be whipped for carrying a gun from his mas-

ter's land without license, and may order a forfeiture of the gun to

the person seizing it, &c. — 1715, ch. 44, sec. 32, ....

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May give judgment for the fine for hunting in enclosed ground — 1728,

ch. 7, sec. 7, ..........

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Shall take an account of the marks of horses, &.c. brought before him,

which the persons aggrieved shall set up — 1715, ch. 31, sec. 4. .

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May punish slaves guilty of pilfering or stealing, &c. by whipping —

1717, ch. 13, sec. 6, .........

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May give judgment for the fine on persons refusing to go with the con-

stable to suppress the tumultuous meetings of negroes, or refusing

when there to assist such constable — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 3,

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May, on any negro or other slave striking any white person, cause one

of such negro's ears to be cropped — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 4,*

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May give judgment for the fine on persons encouraging negroes or

other slaves to meet in companies on their plantations — 1723, ch.

15, sec. 5, ...........

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On the owners of slaves suffering them to keep horses or mares, or to

raise cattle or hogs, as their own property — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 6, .

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On persons profanely swearing or cursing before any magistrate, minis-

ter, &c.— 1723, ch. 16, sec. 2, .......

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On persons getting drunk before such magistrate, Sic. — 1723, ch. 16,

sec. 3, ...........

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Shall, where the offenders are freeholders, &c. and not able to pay the

fines, certify them to the county courts — 1723, ch. 16, sec. 4,

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May give judgment for the fine incurred by other justices or officers

being themselves guilty of cursing, &c. — 1723, ch. 16, sec. 6,

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May commit any person to prison who shall revile such justice, or any

officer executing this act, for one month, unless security is given as

therein directed — 1723, ch. 16, sec. 7, .

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* Punishment changed to whipping, by 1821, ch. 240.

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