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CHAP. 13.
Passed Dec. 23.
* 1807, ch. 109. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XIII.
A Further Supplement to an Act*, entitled, An Act to confirm and
make public a certain Road therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 2,
fol. 440. |
Preamble.
† Ch. 119.
‡ Ch. 83. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by
the petition of sundry inhabitants of Harford and Baltimore counties,
that a law passed at November session, eighteen hundred and
eight †, confirming that part of the plot and return of the commissioners
appointed by an act of the general assembly of Maryland,
passed at November session, eighteen hundred and six ‡, from John
Wise's, in Harford county, to William Slade's in Baltimore county;
and no provisions being made in the act to which this is a further
supplement to allow damages to individuals over whose land
the said road does pass, therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to ascertain
damages sustained
by road,
&c. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Johnson, Joshua Stevenson, and William Hutchings, of
Baltimore county, and Jesse Jarrett and Andrew Turner, of Harford
county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they,
or a majority of them, are authorised and requested to view and ascertain
what damages are done to individuals over whose lands the
said road has been laid, between John Wise's, in Harford county,
and William Slade's, in Baltimore county, and make return of such
valuation and damages to the levy courts of Baltimore and Harford
counties, to be by them levied, at their next meeting that shall
happen thereafter, on the assessable property of the respective
counties, to be collected and paid, as other county charges are collected
and paid, to those entitled to receive, or their order. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. XIV.
An Act to alter and change the place of holding the Election in
the third
Election District in Cecil County, and for other purposes.
Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol. 441.
This act repealed by November 1812, ch. 19. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. XV.
An Act relating to Servants and Slaves. Lib. TH. No. 2,
fol. 442.
See 1804, ch. 90, and 1817, ch. 112. |
Deeds executed
for manumission
of slaves, and
which have been
acknowledged in
manner heretofore
directed, declared
valid.
|| 1796, ch. 67. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That
any deed heretofore executed for the manumission of any slave or
slaves, who by law might have been set free or manumitted by
deed, and which has been acknowledged and recorded in the manner
directed by the act ||, entitled, An act relating to negroes, and
to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned, shall be valid and
effectual in law to give freedom to any such slave or slaves, and
their issue, although such deed of manumission, or writing as aforesaid,
may not have been evidenced by two or more good and sufficient
witnesses. |
Copy of any such
deed, duly attested,
to be deemed
good evidence to
prove the same.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a copy of any such
deed of manumission
or writing as aforesaid, taken from the records of the
county, and duly attested under the seal of the court, shall at all
times hereafter be deemed, to all intents and purposes, good evidence
to prove such deed of manumission; Provided always, that
nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to effect or
destroy the right of any person, who, before the passage of this |
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