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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1624.

latto, until such negro or mulatto shall produce a regularly
authenticated certificate of freedom from some clerk or register
of the county courts of this state, accompanied by a duly
authenticated certificate by the clerk of the county court, where
such vessel may clear out, said certificate to have a description
of said negro or mulatto, his or her name, age, place of birth,
heighth, colour and residence, previous to applying for the
same.

Register of
certificates;
Fee.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That said clerk of court shall keep
a register, with description list of all applicants receiving certi-
ficates, and shall be entitled to receive one dollar for each
person who may apply to inspect said register and list of appli-
cants.

Master of
vessel to
keep and
shew
register.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every
master or officer of such vessel to keep a register and descrip-
tion list of each and every negro or mulatto received on board,
which he shall exhibit to any person applying to see the same,
and give every facility of search, under a penalty of one hun-
dred dollars for each refusal or neglect to do the same, to be
recovered by action of debt in the county court, one-half to
the use of the state, the remainder to the plaintiff.

Penalty for
neglect.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any master or officer of
vessels shall transport from this state any negro or mulatto
without having complied with the requisites of this act, shall
incur a penalty of one thousand dollars, to be recovered by
action of debt in any county court of this state ; one-half of the
sum to the use of the state, the other half to the owner or party
who shall sue for the same.

CHAPTER 67.
An ACT relating to the Trustees of the Poor and Judges of the Orphans
Courts of the several Counties in this State.

Authority
given to
trustees of
the poor.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the poor of
the several counties in this state, or any three of them, to bind
out any negro or mulatto child or children under their care in
the poor house of said counties, as they are now authorized by
law to bind out, without requiring that such education shall be
given to the said child or children as masters are obliged to give
to apprentices bound by the several orphans courts of this state.

To orphans
court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful
for the several orphans courts in this state, to bind out any free
negro or mulatto child or children that may come or be brought
before them to be bound out, in the same manner and with the
same provisions as are required by the first section of this act,
in the case of children bound out by the trustees of the poor.