ART. 9.] CHARLES COUNTY. 483

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

50. There shall be the following number of justices of the
peace and constables in Charles county, to wit: for election
district number one, four justices of the peace and four con-
stables ; for election district number two, four justices of the
peace and four constables; for election district number three,
four justices of the peace and three constables; for election
district number four, four justices of the peace and three con-
stables

MILIS.

51. The master or owner of any horse-mill or wind-mill in
Charles county, may demand and receive for grinding any quan-
tity of corn or rye, the sixth part thereof, and if any such mas-
ter or owner, or the miller or the person by him employed in
said mill, shall demand or receive more, he shall forfeit the sum
of twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered before any
justice of the peace for said county, as small debts are recovered,
the one-half to the State and the other half to the informer.

NEGBOES AND SLAVES.

52. No licensed retailer or other person residing in Charles
county, accustomed to make and sell distilled spirits or other
liquors, shall sell such distilled spirits or other liquors to any
negro slave or any free negro, between sunset in the evening
and sunrise on the succeeding morning, or on the Sabbath day.

53. No such person shall suffer any free negro or any negro
slave to be in his store or other house wherein he is accustomed
to sell distilled spirits or other liquors, between the times and
on the day aforesaid, unless in the case of such slave he shall
have a written order or a license for that purpose from his mas-
ter, overseer, or other person in whose employment he may act-
ually be with the consent of his owner.

54. If any person shall permit any negro to be in his house,
contrary to the provisions of the last two preceding sections, he
shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of fifty dol-
lars, one-half to the informer and the other half to the county,
in case the negro was free; and the one-half to the informer and
the other half to the master or owner, in case such negro was a