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Justice, on
application,
to issue an
order, &c.
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authorized and required, upon the application of the mother of
any illegitimate child, or any other person or persons to whose
custody such child may have been committed to be maintained,
verified by the oath, or affirmation, as the case may be, of such
mother or other person, that he, she or they, have not received
any sum or sums of money from such father, or either of his
securities, his or their, or either of their heirs, executors or
administrators, for the use or maintenance of such child, more
than credit given, to issue an order, requiring such father, his
security or securities, his or their heirs, executors or adminis-
trators, to pay to the mother, or other person who shall have
the custody of the said child, such a sum of money as may
appear adequate for the maintenance of such child, not exceed-
ing thirty dollars per annum, until the said child shall arrive to
the age of seven years ; and upon proof of the service of such
order upon the person or persons to whom the same might have
been directed, and demand of payment thereof, and that the
money thereon due is unpaid, the clerk of the county court in
which the recognizance of such father may be filed, is hereby
authorized and empowered forthwith to issue a scire facias on
such recognizance, for the use of such mother, or other person
entitled as aforesaid, and thereupon such proceedings shall be
had as shall bring the matter in dispute fairly to trial at the
next term thereafter, without any importance* or delay.
* So in the record.
CHAPTER 43.
AN ACT for the better Administration of Justice in the several counties
of this state.
Repealed by 1801, ch. 74.
CHAPTER 67.
AN ACT relating to Negroes, and to repeal the acts of assembly therein
mentioned.
Supplements, 1797, ch. 15; 1798, ch. 76.
Other laws are 1802, ch. 68; 1804, ch, 89, 90; 1805, ch. 66; 1806, ch.
81; 1807, ch. 164; 1809, ch. 171; 1812, ch. 76; 1813, ch. 56; 1817, ch.
104, 112; 1819, ch. 159; 1820, ch. 88; 1821, ch. 240; 1823, ch. 87; 1824,
ch. 85, 171 ; 1828, ch. 98; 1831. ch. 185, 281, 323; 1832, ch. 40, 145,
296, 316, 317 5 1833, ch. 17, 87, 111, 224, 274, 284; 1834, ch. 75, 124, 160,
161, 197,266, 284 5 1835, ch. 61, 326, 329; 1836, ch. 150; 1837, ch. 23,
275.
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Negroes
not to be
imported,
&c.
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Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
it shall not be lawful, from and after the passing of this act, to
import or bring into this state, by land or water, any negro, mu-
latto or other slave, for sale, or to reside within this state ; and
any person brought into this state as a slave contrary to this
act, if a slave before, shall thereupon immediately cease to be
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