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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXLIII.
An Act to establish a permanent Salary for the Chief Justice of
the
Court of Oyer and Terminer and gaol Delivery of Baltimore
County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 361.
This act, since 1816, ch. 193. has ceased to have any operation. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 143.
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
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CHAP. CXLIV.
An Act regulating the Powers of the County Courts in Criminal Proceedings.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 361. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
WHEREAS by an act of assembly passed at November
session,
seventeen hundred and ninety-three*, entitled, An act respecting
the punishment of criminals, among other things it provided, that
any person presented or indicted may submit to the court, provided
that such submission shall always be deemed so far an admission
of the crime or offence charged, as to render the person submitting
liable to the costs of the prosecution: And whereas it is
considered, that great time and expense may be saved in authorising
the several county courts, and court of oyer and terminer and
gaol delivery for Baltimore county (a), to determine on the whole merits
of the case which may be to the said courts respectively submitted;
therefore,
(a) See 1816, ch. 193. |
Preamble.
* Ch. 57. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful
for any person presented or indicted to submit to the court, at his
or her discretion, and the court to which such case shall be submitted,
is hereby authorised and empowered to decide on the whole
merits of the case, which submission shall not be considered an admission
of the fact, either to find the person so submitting guilty
of the offence charged, or to charge him or her with the costs of
prosecution, if not guilty of the offence. |
Court on the submission
of the person
indicted may
decide on the
whole merits. |
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CHAP. CXLV.
An Act to clear and make public a Road in Washington County.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 362.
This act repealed by 1810, ch. 114. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
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CHAP. CXLVI.
An Act to lay out and open a Road in Worcester County, beginning
at
some point on the Road that leads from Snow-Hill to
Salisbury,
and running from thence until it intersects the Road
running from
Mary Parker's to Salisbury. Lib. TH. No. 2,
fol. 363. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Eben Christopher, Robert Mitchel, Boaz Walston, Nathan Gordy
and William Parker, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners to lay out, survey, mark and bound, a
public road in said county, not exceeding twenty feet wide, beginning
at some point on the road that leads from Snow-Hill to Salisbury,
and running from thence until it intersects the road running
from Mary Parker's to Salisbury, in such direction as the nature
of the ground, and the convenience of the landholders over which the
same may run, will admit; Provided, that the said road shall not
be laid out through the lands of any person, without his or her
consent, in writing, first had and obtained, and until the damages |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
and survey road. |
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