486 CHARLES COUNTY. [ART. 9.

67. Any slave of Charles county who shall have or use any
boat in crossing said river, or going to Alexandria or the District
of Columbia, without a special written permit of his master,
shall, upon conviction before a justice of the peace for said county,
be sentenced to receive twenty lashes, and the boat, unless it
belongs to a white citizen and is used without his knowledge,
shall be condemned as directed in the preceding section.

68. No justice of the peace for said county shall grant any
license to any free negro of said county to have and use a boat
on the Potomac River, or shore thereof, without a written certifi-
cate signed by at least two respectable landholders near the place
where said boat is usually had and used, that said free negro is
of good moral character.

69. If at any time two or more landholders on the shore of the
Potomac, in said county, shall recommend the suppression of any
license granted under the 65th section of this article, the justice
of the peace who granted the license, shall notify the negro of
such recommendation, and the said negro shall have a right to a
hearing before said justice, and the justice shall determine the
matter according to justice and right, and continue or suppress
such license.

LEGAL NOTICES.

70. Executors, administrators, trustees, sheriffs, ex-sheriffs,
coroners, and constables in Charles county, may exercise a dis-
cretionary power as to • notices which the laws of the State
require to be given in newspapers, either by inserting them in
newspapers or by putting them up at the court-house door and
other public places in the county.

ORPHANS' COURT.

71. Each judge of the Orphans' Court of Charles county shall
be entitled to the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for each
day's attendance.

PORT TOBACCO.

72. The citizens of the village of Port Tobacco, in Chariea
county, are a body corporate by the name of " The President
and Commissioners of the Village of Port Tobacco," and by their
corporate name may sue and be sued, and have and use a common
seal, which may be changed at pleasure.