LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1804.

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shall sell all transfer tobacco which shall not be so received and
marked, on the second day of holding the county courts in each
county respectively on each shore, if fair, if not, on the first fair
day thereafter, by public auction, in single hogsheads, and not
otherwise, and shall pay the money arising from such sale at the
average price of the sale of tobacco belonging to each house, in
satisfaction of their notes from time to time to the proprietors
thereof making their demand, under the same penalty as is pre-
scribed for not paying inspectors' notes.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all transfer tobacco, when
prized in hogsheads, shall be subject to the same charges for
inspection and otherwise, as crop tobacco is subject to.
SEC. 4. And, whereas doubts have arisen as to the legality of
the inspectors permitting persons who may offer tobacco in
hogsheads at the respective warehouses which may be refused,
to carry the same so refused from the warehouse at which it
shall have been offered, and it appearing reasonable that such
indulgence should be given to every person thus circumstanced,
Be it enacted, That in case any person shall hereafter offer at
any warehouse for inspection, any tobacco in hogsheads, and
the same shall be found by the inspector to be unmerchantable,
it shall and may be lawful for such inspector to permit the per-
son owing such tobacco to take away the same from the said
warehouse for the purpose of altering the condition thereof, or
otherwise.

Transfer
tobacco
subject to
same
charges as
crop.

Persons
owning to-
bacco found
unmer-
chantable,
permitted
to take the
same away.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall continue and
be in force for the same term of the continuance of the act to

Duration.

which this is a further supplement : Provided, that nothing
herein contained, so far as relates to transfer tobacco, shall ex-
tend, or be construed to extend, to St. Mary's county, any thing
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
I cannot find that the law has been repealed; — continued to 1805, and
since by the annual continuing acts.

CHAPTER 90.

Proviso.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, * entitled, an Act relating to Negroes,
and to repeal the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned.
See notes to the original law, ante page 334.

*1796, ch.
67.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That if
any person shall apply, by petition in writing, to the county
court of the county wherein such person shall reside, setting
forth, that any negro or mulatto, to whose services he was or
is entitled for a limited time or number of years, has run away
or departed from the service of such person, during such time
of servitude, it shall be lawful for such court, on being satisfied
of the truth of the facts set forth in such petition, and that such
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Negroes
entitled to
freedom,
and running
away, to
serve out
the length
of time they
have been
absent