ART. 18.] ST. MARY'S COUNTY. ' 785

NEQBOES AND SLAVES.

61. No licensed retailer in said county, nor any person residing
in said county, accustomed to make and sell distilled spirits or
other liquors, shall suffer any free negro, or any negro servant
or slave, to be in his store-house, or other house wherein he is
accustomed to sell distilled spirits or other liquors, between sun-
set and sunrise.

62. The provisions of the last preceding section shall not be
construed to extend to the case of a servant or slave having a
written order from his master or overseer, or other person in
whose employment he may actually be with the consent of his
owner, or to negroes employed as wagoners, or travellers putting
up or stopping whilst travelling through said county.

6S. Any person who shall suffer or permit any negro to be in
his house, contrary to the provisions of the 61st section of this
article, shall forfeit and pay for such offence the sum of fifty
dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half to the county,
if the negro be free; and one-half to the county and the other
half to the master or owner if such negro was a servant or slave
at the time the offence was committed, to be adjudged and
recovered on indictment and conviction in the Circuit Court for
said county.

64. If, on conviction for sacb offence, the person convicted shall
be unable to pay the fine, the court shall, in their discretion, order
such person to be confined in the jail of the county for a term
not exceeding thre- months.

65. In all prosecutions under the four last preceding sections,
if it shall be proven to the satisfaction of the jury that any free
negro or any negro servant or slave was in any store or other
house as described in section 61 of this article within the time
therein prohibited, such evidence shall be sufficient to establish
the fact that such negro was suffered or permitted to be there by
the possessor or occupier of such store-house or other house, unless
he shall be able to show, by credible testimony, that he, or his
agents or clerks, did Dot know that such negro was there, or,
knowing the same, used all necessary means to remove him.

66. Any person who shall, in said county, receive from any
negro any goods, chattels or personal property, shall be con-

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