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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1806.

CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT to prohibit the emigration of Free Negroes into this State.
Merged in 1831, ch. 323.

CHAPTER 68.

*1799, eh.
82.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to appoint a Wreckmaster
for Worcester County.
See 1807, ch. 19.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by the original act to which this is a supplement,
it is doubtful whether the wreckmaster is authorized to contract
with labourers, and experience has proved the necessity of such
power in the convenient execution of the said act ; therefore,

Wreck mas-
ter may
employ
labourers.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That hereafter the wreckmaster shall be and he is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to contract with, and hire, so many
labourers as he may deem necessary to carry into effect the
purposes of the act to which this is a supplement.

His allow-
ance.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the wreckmaster shall be
entitled to receive for his services, a sum not exceeding twenty
per cent, of the property saved, at the discretion of the county
court, some one of the judges thereof out of court, or of the
orphans court of the county.
By 1807, ch. 19, the clerk of the county, during the vacation of the
county court, to take bond and security from the wreckmaster,

CHAPTER 70.

AN ACT vesting certain powers in the President of the United States.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, a law passed the congress of the United States on
the twenty-ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and six,
directing the laying out of a road from Cumberland, on the
Potomac river, to the Ohio, and the consent of this state being
necessary to the opening the same, so far as it may run within
her limits ; therefore,

Consent of
state given
for opening
road from
Cumber-
land to
Ohio.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be lawful, and the full and entire consent of the
state of Maryland is hereby given, to the opening and improv-
ing the same, and the president of the United States is hereby
authorized to cause the said road to be laid out, opened and
improved, in such way and manner as by the before recited act
of congress is required and directed.

CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT to restrain the evil practices arising from Negroes keeping Dogs,
and to prohibit them from carrying Guns or offensive weapons.
See 1805, ch. 80, ante page 510.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That after the first day of May next, it shall not be lawful for
any negro or mulatto within this state to keep any dog, bitch or