LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1802.

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as he is by law entitled to, add no more, and the balance, if
any, to be paid to the justices of the levy court, who are hereby
authorized and directed to pay the same to the owner of such
servant or slave, if such owner shall apply for it within two
years from the time of such sale, and if it shall not be applied
for within two years as aforesaid, then the money so paid to the

levy court shall be applied to the use of the county : Provided,
that any servant or slave sold as aforesaid shall not be carried or
transported out of this state until after two years have elapsed
from the time of such sale, and any person or persons who shall
carry, or cause to be carried out of this state, within the time
limited as aforesaid, any such servant or slave, shall incur and
be subject to the like penalties as persons are who shall trans-
port or carry any free negro out of this state.
See note under section 2.
See 1817, ch. 112; and 1828, ch. 98, sec. 2.

Proviso.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any sheriff shall refuse
or neglect to comply with the directions of this act, he shall,
for every such refusal or neglect, forfeit and pay the sum of one
hundred dollars.

Penalty for
neglect.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That an act, entitled, a supplement
to the act relating to servants and slaves, passed May session,
seventeen hundred and nineteen,* and an act, entitled, an act
to restrain the ill-practioes of sheriffs, and to direct their con-
duct respecting runaways, passed November session, seventeen

Acts
repealed.

* Chap. 2.

hundred and ninety-two,f be and they are hereby severally
repealed.

CHAPTER 100.

AN ACT respecting the Debts due to this State, and the Debtors thereof,
and for other purposes.

Supplements are 1814, ch. 103; 1817, ch. 137.
SEC. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, refer to debts then due to the state. The 9, 10,
11, 12, 13 and 14th sections refer to property liable to confiscation and then
discovered ; 1814, ch. 103, places all property liable to confiscation, and
which might thereafter be discovered, subject to the like authority as is con-
tained in the last recited sections. These sections are therefore reprinted.

f Chap. 72.

SEC. 8. Whereas many persons have made discoveries of
British property, confiscated property, or property liable to con-
fiscation, to the governor and council, the late intendant, and
late agents of the state, and have made application to purchase
the same upon the terms held out by law to the discoverers :
And whereas there is no person invested with authority to esti-
mate the value, or fix a reasonable price for the said property,
and to compound with the person or persons making such dis-
covery, or with the person or persons applying to purchase the
same, Be it enacted, That the governor and council be and

May com-
pound with
persons
who have
made disco-
very of
property
liable to
confiscation