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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the same manner as if he had actually resided within this state,
agreeably to the provisions of the said act, and the several supplements
thereto. |
1810.
CHAP. 35. |
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CHAP. XXXVI.
An Act to preserve the breed of Fish in Baltimore County.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 465. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall not be lawful for any person or persons whatsoever, after
the passage of this act, to destroy the fish in any branch or creek
in Baltimore county, by putting quick-lime therein, under the
penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offence, to be sued for
and recovered before a justice of the peace, as sums of similar amount
are sued for and recovered in said county, one half of which
sum shall be applied to the use of the county, and the other half
shall be received by the person or persons who shall give information
thereof. |
Penalty for destroying
fish by
quicklime. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any master, mistress
or overseer,
wilfully suffering any servant or servants, slave or slaves, under
his, her or their care or management, to put quick-lime in any
stream of water in the aforesaid county, shall forfeit the sum of
twenty dollars, to be recovered and applied as aforesaid, and if any
servant or servants, slave or slaves, shall put quick-lime in any
stream of water in said county, without the privity and knowledge
of their master, mistress or overseer, and be convicted thereof before
any justice of the peace, such servant or servants, slave or
slaves, shall be whipped, not exceeding thirty-nine lashes, at the discretion
of such justice of the peace. |
On persons suffering
slaves to be
guilty of same offence,
&c. |
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CHAP. XXXVII.
An Act for the relief of Sarah Rimmer, of the City of Annapolis.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 466. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
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CHAP. XXXVIII.
An Act to alter and change a Road in the Village of Denton, in Caroline
County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 466. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
WHEREAS Thomas Saulsbury, of Caroline county, by
his petition
to this general assembly, hath set forth, that he is much injured
by the public road leading from the upper part of said county
to the village of Denton, which runs through a part of his lot in
said village; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Richardson, Samuel Emmerson and Anthony Ross, junior,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view so much
of the road leading from the upper part of Caroline county to the
village of Denton, as runs from the corner of Fifth and Gay-street
to Market-street, or that part of said road which runs through the
said Thomas Saulsbury's lot of land in said village, and if the
said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be of opinion that
the direction of the said road, or so much thereof as runs through
the said Thomas Saulsbury's lot, can be changed and altered in
such manner as will not be disadvantageous to the said village,
then the said commissioners shall have full power to alter and
change the direction of the said road, agreeably to the prayer of |
Commissioners appointed
to view
certain road. |
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