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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1826-27.

Proviso.

training for rent due ; Provided, that such property shall not
have been sold to a bona fide purchaser without notice, or taken
in execution.

CHAPTER 267.
AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT relative to Licenses, passed at
December Session, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, chapter one
hundred and forty-eight.
Repealed by 1827, ch. 117.

CHAPTER 268.
AN ACT requiring the Commissioners of Lotteries to give Bond.
SEC. 1. Another form of bond is prescribed by 1827, ch. 160.
SEC. 2. Repealed by 1827, ch. 160, sec. 19.

DECEMBER, 1827.— CHAPTER 15.

An additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act concerning
Crimes and Punishments, passed December session, eighteen hundred
and eighteen, chapter one hundred and fifty-seven.

Free per-
sona enti-
cing slaves
to run away
subjected
to indict-
ment and
confine-
ment in the
penitentiary

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any free person shall entice, persuade or assist any
slave or servant, knowing him or her to be such, to run away
from his or her lawful owner or possessor, and such slave or
servant, shall actually run away, or having harboured such
runaway slave or servant, knowing him or her to be such, then
such person shall be liable to indictment in the county court of
the county where such offence shall have been committed, or
in the city court of Baltimore, if such offence shall have been
committed in the city of Baltimore, and upon conviction shall
undergo a confinement in the penitentiary, not exceeding six
years.
This section is a reprint of 2d, 1818, ch. 157, ante page 694.

Slave,
guilty of
Tike offence
to receive
thirty-nine
lashes.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any slave shall entice,
persuade or assist any slave or servant, knowing him or her to
be such, to run away from his or her owner, master or mistress,
and such slave or servant shall actually run away, then such
slave so enticing, persuading or assisting, shall upon conviction
thereof before any justice of the peace of the county where
such offence was committed, or before any justice of the peace
of the city of Baltimore, if the offence shall be committed
within the limits of said city, shall be sentenced to receive
thirty-nine lashes for such offence.

Laws in-
consistent
herewith
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the law,
to which this is a supplement, as are inconsistent with the pro
visions herein contained, be, and the same are hereby repealed,