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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1812.

NOVEMBER, 1812.— CHAPTER 32.
AN ACT to regulate the Fees of the Register of the Court of Chancery.
Merged in 1826, ch. 247.

CHAPTER 68.

*1786, ch.
45.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an act to direct
Descents.
Repealed by 1820, ch. 191.

CHAPTER 76.

*Ch. 67.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an Acr passed at November session seventeen
hundred and ninety-six,* entitled, an act relating to Negroes, and to
repeal the Act of Assembly therein mentioned.
See notes to the original act, ante page 334.

Preamble.

WHEREAS the act of assembly to which this is a further sup-
plement, and the supplementary acts thereto, have been found
by experience to be inconvenient and oppressive to persons in
this state owning slaves that reside near the lines of other states ;
therefore,

Slaves may
be hired out
in an
adjoining
county of
another
state.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for any citizen of this state, to
hire, remove or work, any of his or her slaves, in any adjoining
county of any other state, and to bring them into this state
again, as often as the owner or proprietor may think proper,
where the laws of the state into which said slaves may be car-
ried do not prohibit the same, without being obliged to deliver a
list of them to be recorded in the clerk's office of the county as
heretofore required, and to retain and enjoy them as slaves ;

Proviso.

Provided, the said slave or slaves shall not be kept out of this
state longer than twelve months at any one time.

Slaves in
adjoining
state may
be hired ia
this state.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
for any citizen of any other state, owning slaves in any county
adjoining this state, to hire or work any of his or her slaves in
this statej as often as the owner or proprietor may think proper,
without being obliged to deliver a list of them to be recorded ia
the clerk's office as heretofore required, and to hold and enjoy

Proviso.

them as slaves; Provided, the said slave or slaves shall not be
kept in this state longer than twelve months at any one time.

Slaves so
hired not to
be entitled
to freedom
in conse-
quence
thereof.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no negro or slave, that hath
been or shall be hired, removed, or worked out of this state, in
any adjoining county of any other state, shall be entitled to
freedom oa account of such removal ; Provided, they have not
been, or shall not be kept out of this state more than twelve
months at any one time as aforesaid, any thing in the act to
which this is a supplement, and the supplementary acts thereto,
to the contrary notwithstanding.