LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1817:

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such lunatic pauper to the Maryland Hospital, and the expenses
that may be incurred during his or her stay in said hospital,
provided the said expenses do not exceed the sum of one hun-
dred dollars per annum, during his or her stay in said hospital.

CHAPTER 86.
AN ACT for the preservation of Buoys in the Patapsco River and
Chesapeake Bay.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
every person, his or her aiders and abettors, who shall be con-
victed before any court exercising criminal jurisdiction at the
place where the offender may be arrested, or may reside, of the
crime of stealing, cutting away, or in any manner wilfully
injuring, any of the buoys, their mooring chains and stones,
which are now moored, or may hereafter be moored, in the
Patapsco river, or in the Chesapeake bay, by the direction of
the insurance companies of the city of Baltimore, shall be sen-
tenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary house of
the state of Maryland, for a period not exceeding seven years,
at the discretion of the court who may try the offence, and the
person sentenced as aforesaid shall be kept therein, and in all
things be treated and dealt with as other criminals, under the
like sentences, in the penitentiary aforesaid.

CHAPTER 89.

Persons
convicted
of injuring
buoys to be
confined in,
peniten-
tiary.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the Act,* entitled, an Act to establish Pilots
and regulate their Fees.
Merged in 1823, ch. 176.

CHAPTER 104.

*1803, ch,
63.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to prevent the incon-
veniencies arising from Slaves being permitted to act as free.

*Apr. 1787,
ch. 33.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any person who shall permit and authorize any slave
belonging to him or herself, in his or her own right, or pos-
sessed in the right of another, or in whom he of she may have
special property, to go at large, or hire him or herself within
this state, shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars
for every month such slave shall go at large or hire him or her-
self, and at the same rate for any shorter time than one month,
except twenty days at harvest.

Penalty for
permitting
slaves to go
at large.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person who shall hire a
slave, or contract with such slave, shall incur a penalty of
twenty dollars, except as before excepted ; Provided, that any
person may permit his slave, being a pilot, to hire himself in
such capacity, and any person may employ as a pilot any slave
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For hiring
or contract-
ing with
slaves.

Proviso.