LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1802.

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by the clerk, under the penalty of one hundred dollars, which
said penalties herein imposed shall be recovered as other penal-
ties are by law recovered.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all that part of the act,*
entitled, a supplement to the act for the establishment and regu-
lation of levy courts in the several counties of this state, which
requires that the governor and council shall appoint and com-
mission the justices of the levy courts from the list of those
annually commissioned as justices of the peace, be and the same
is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 92.

AN ACT directing the mode of paying the valuation of Slaves and Servants
in cases of commutation of punishment by the Governor.

Part of an
act repealed
* 1798, ch.
34.

WHEREAS by an act passed at November session, one thou-
sand seven hundred and ninety-five,* entitled, an act declaring
the power of the governor in certain criminal cases, it is, among
other things, provided and enacted, that the governor for the
time being shall have full power and authority, in his discretion,
to commute or change any sentence or judgment of death passed
on any criminal by any court of this state into other punishment
of labour, or to banishment of such criminal from this state upon
such terms and conditions, and for such period, as he shall think
expedient, and if such criminal be a slave, against whom any
such judgment or sentence is or maybe passed, to commute and
change the said judgment into transportation, and sale in some
foreign country for the benefit of the state, and no provision hath
yet been made by law for paying to the owner or owners the
valuation of any slave or servant whose sentence shall be com-
muted by the governor under the powers delegated to him by
the act aforesaid ; therefore,

Preamble.
*Chap. 82.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That whenever sentence of death shall be passed upon any
slave or servant, and the same shall be commuted or changed
by the governor, the valuation of such slave or servant, made
by the court passing such sentence, shall be paid by the trea-
surer of the western shore, in virtue of an order to be drawn by
the governor in favour of the owner or owners of such slave or
servant.

CHAPTER 94.
A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to direct
Descents.
Repealed by 1820, ch. 191.

Valuation
of slave to
be paid by
treasurer.