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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1817,

known, or generally reported to be, a pilot, before the passage of
this act.

How to be
recovered.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the penalties inflicted in vir-
tue of this act shall and may be recovered, with costs, in the
county court of the county where the offence may happen, by
indictment.

Act to be
given in
charge to
grand jury.

SEC. 4 And be it enacted, That it shall be and is hereby
made the duty of the presiding judge in each county, to give
this act in charge to the grand jury on the first day of the
meeting of the county court, during the continuance of this
act.

When act
to com-
mence.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the operation of this act
shall commence on the first day of April, eighteen hundred
and nineteen.

Repeal.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act to
which this is a supplement that are inconsistent with, or repug-
nant to, the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.

CHAPTER 111,

AN ACT to regulate the Clerk's Fees in the Chancery proceedings in the
County Courts, and for other purposes.
SEC. 1. Is merged in 1826, ch. 247.

Criers fees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the criers of the several
county courts within this state, shall be entitled to receive two
dollars per day for every day they shall attend the terms estab-
lished for chancery business, to be levied, collected and paid, as
other county charges.

CHAPTER 112.

AN ACT to prevent the unlawful exportation of Negroes and Mulattoes,
and to alter and amend the laws concerning Runaways.
Supplements are 1824, ch. 171 ; 1828, ch. 98.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the laws heretofore enacted for preventing the
kidnapping of free negroes and mulattoes, and of transporting
out of this state negroes and mulattoes entitled to their freedom
after a term of years, have been found insufficient to restrain
the commission of such crimes and misdemeanors ; and it
hath been found moreover, that servants and slaves have been
seduced from the service of their masters and owners, and
fraudulently removed out of this state ; and that the children
of free negroes and mulattoes have been kidnapped from their
masters, protectors and parents, and transported to distant
places and sold as slaves for life; to prevent therefore such
heinous offences, and to punish them when committed,
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the publication of this act, no person shall