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LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1826.

shall receive a sufficient number of such record entries, made
on sheets, as will form a record book the proper size, he shall
cause the same to be well and substantially bound in leather,
and place the same among the records of his office ; and a copy
taken from any such record entries or book, properly attested by
the clerk of the court of appeals, shall be admitted in evidence
in the manner herein before mentioned.

CHAPTER 229.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT concerning Crimes and Punish-
ments.
SEC. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6. Provide funds for the completion of certain improve-
ments about the penitentiary buildings.
SEC. 3, 7, 10, 11. Repealed by 1837, eh. 310.

Sections of
former act
repealed.

SEC, 8. And be it enacted, That the second, third, fourth,
and fifth sections of the act passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and twenty-five, chapter ninety-three, be, and the same
are hereby repealed ; and hereafter all free negroes or mulattoes,
shall be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary, for the
same term, and under the same circumstances, as other crimi-
nals are sentenced for the like offences.

Directors to
pay free ne-
groes dis-
charged a
sum of
money.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That after the termination of
confinement in the penitentiary, either by the expiration of the
term, or by pardon by the executive, of any free negro or mu-
latto, the directors are authorized and directed to pay him or
her, out of the proceeds of their labour, a sum of money not
exceeding thirty dollars, at their discretion, and discharge the
same, and the said convict shall be banished the state of Mary-
land ; and if any such discharged convict shall be found within
the limits of said state, after the expiration of sixty days subse-
quent to the day of their discharge, he or she may be appre-
hended and sold, by any person finding him or her, as a slave,
for the term of his or her original conviction, upon proof being
shown to any judge of a court of record, or any two justices of
the peace of the county where said discharged convict shall
be apprehended, that he or she has been confined in and dis-
charged from said penitentiary.

CHAPTER 234.
AN ACT to change the time of Electing Representatives of this State, in
the Congress of the United States.

Elections,
when to
be held.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the next election of representatives of this state, in the
congress of the United States, shall be on the first Monday of
October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-nine, and on the same day in every second year
thereafter, unless there should be a special meeting of congress