LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1801-02.

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not exceeding two sides, fifty-cents; drawing all proceedings
exceeding two sides, twenty-cents per side ; registering or copy-
ing proceedings, for every such side ten cents; presenting a
bill of exchange for acceptance, if accepted and not afterwards
protested for non-payment, one dollar ; presenting a bill or note
for payment, if paid when presented, one dollar ; noting a bill
for non-acceptance, if not protested for non-acceptance or non-
payment, one dollar ; protesting a bill or note, or the like, for
non-acceptance or non-payment, one dollar and seventy-five
cents ; noting a marine protest, one dollar ; affixing notarial
seal, fifty cents ; for every search where no copy is made,
twenty-five cents; administering an oath or taking an acknow-
ledgment, twelve and an half cents ; and for all other acts and
services in proportion to the aforesaid fees, to be paid at the
time of doing the same.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted. That it shall be lawful for any
notary public to do and perform such special acts proper to be
done by a notary public to which he may be required, in any
other county of this state than that for which such notary is
appointed, but in all such cases where such notaries are requir-
ed to go more than three miles from their place of actual resi-
dence, such notary shall be allowed not exceeding twenty
cents per mile.

CHAPTER 109.

AN ACT respecting Free Negroes.
See notes to 1751, ch. 14, ante page 91, and see 1808, ch. 81, and the
note to 1717, ch. 13, sec. 3, ante page 47.

May per-
form spe-
cial acts in
any other
county than
that for
which he is
appointed*

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
slaves shall in all cases in which a free negro or mulatto, or
other person of colour, free or freed, charged with stealing goods,
or with the receipt of stolen goods, shall be admitted to give
evidence for or against the person accused.

NOVEMBER, 1802.— CHAPTER 27.

Slaves in
certain
cases may
give evi-
dence.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to regulate the inspection of
Tobacco.
The restriction upon the exportation of uninspected tobacco to a sister
state has been removed by 1836, ch. 191.

CHAPTER 68.
AN ACT respecting the bringing of Slaves from the District of Columbia
into this state.
See note to 1796, ch. 67, ante page 334.

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*1801, ch.
63.