LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1824.

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CHAPTER 144.

AN ACT to amend an Act concerning Crimes and Punishments.
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
rail murder which shall be committed by any person or persons
in the arresting and imprisoning, or attempt to arrest and impri-
son any free person or persons, or any person or persons entitled
to his, her or their freedom at or after a certain age, period or
contingency, with intent forcibly to carry or to cause to be
forcibly carried out of this state, the said person or persons so
free or entitled to his, her or their freedom as aforesaid; the
person or persons so committing said murder knowing such
person or persons so arrested and imprisoned, or attempted to
be arrested and imprisoned, to be free, or entitled to his, her or
their freedom as aforesaid, shall be deemed murder of the first
degree ; and any person duly convicted of said murder, his, her
or their aiders, abettors, and counsellors, shall suffer death by
hanging by the neck.

CHAPTER 145.

AN ACT relating to Coroners' Bonds.
See note to 1821, eh. 243, ante page 778.

Crime
defined.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That every coroner, before he acts as such, shall, within sixty
days after his appointment, or renewal of his commission, and
in each and every year thereafter, give bond, or enter into a re-
cognizance, with two sufficient sureties, to the state of Mary-
land, in the penalty of three thousand dollars, with a condition,
that he will well and truly execute the office of coroner in all
things thereunto belonging ; and shall also well and faithfully
execute and return all writs or other process to him directed ;
and shall also pay and deliver to the person or persons entitled
to receive the same, all sums of money, all goods and chattels
by him levied, seized or taken, agreeably to the directions of
the writ or other process, under which the same shall have been
levied, seized or taken ; and also shall keep and detain in safe
custody, all and every person and persons committed to his
custody, or by him taken in execution, or who shall be com-
mitted for the want of bail, without suffering them to escape or
depart from his custody; and shall also satisfy and pay all
judgments which shall be rendered against him as coroner, and
shall also well and truly execute and perform the several duties
required of or imposed upon him by the laws of this state ;
which bond or recognizance, shall be entered into before and
approved by the judges of the orphans court, or some one of
them ; and shall immediately after the execution thereof, be
recorded in the county court office, of the county in which the
party so executing shall act as coroner.

Bond pre
scribed.