72 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1728-39.
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CHAPTER 7.
AM ACT to encourage the destroying of Wolves, Crows, and Squirrels.
This general law has yielded to various local laws, except the seventh
section, which does not appear to have been repealed. |
Penalty on
persons
hunting,
&c. |
a SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, by the authority, advice,
and consent aforesaid, That every person that shall, during the
continuance of this act, presume upon any pretence whatso-
ever, to come to hunt with guns or dogs within any enclosed
grounds, islands, peninsulas or necks, fenced across from water
to water, without leave or license from the proprietors thereof
first had and obtained, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and
pay to the party grieved the sum of two hundred pounds of
tobacco, to be recovered before a single magistrate, in the same
manner as small debts now are recoverable, any law, statute or
usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
CHAPTER 8.
An ACT to supply some defects in the act, entitled 'An act for the encou-
ragement of learning, and erecting Schools in the several Counties within
this Province, and also to explain an act, entitled. An act for laying an
additional duty of twenty shillings current money per poll on all Irish
servants being Papists, to prevent the growth of Popery by the importa-
tion of too great a number of them into this Province, and also the addi-
tional duly of twenty shillings current money per poll on all Negroes,
for raising a fund for the use of Public Schools within the several Coun-
ties of this Province.
This is inoperative from the operation of subsequent laws establishing
public schools; by the Bill of Rights establishing the freedom of religious
worship; by the prohibition of the foreign slave trade, and by 1796, ch. 67.
JULY, 1789.—CHAPTER 4.
AN ACT for the more effectual punishing of Negroes and other Slaves, and
for taking away the benefit of Clergy from certain Offenders.
Merged in 1809, ch. 138.
CHAPTER 8.
AN ACT for the Relief of Creditors, and to prevent Frauds and Deceits
occasioned by secret sales, mortgages, and gifts of goods and chattels.
A supplementary act, 1763, ch. 13. |
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Preamble. |
WHEREAS divers persons being indebted to several of the
inhabitants of this province, and others his majesty's subjects,
have run away, without making any satisfaction to their credi-
tors, and either carried their substance with them, or lodged the
same in the hands of some persons in trust to their own use, or
made secret and fraudulent sales thereof, to the great prejudice
of creditors, and the discouragement of trade; for remedy
whereof, |
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