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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after the said alley
is opened the
same shall be deemed and taken as a public alley for ever thereafter. |
1810.
CHAP. 60.
When opened to
be deemed public. |
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CHAP. LXI.
An Act for the relief of John S. Moffitt. Lib. TH. No.
2, fol. 498.
A Private Act.
Confirming a deed to him from Thomas
Moffitt, attorney for Mary Hall, for a
tract of land called Hall's Retreat. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
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CHAP. LXII.
An Act for the benefit of Alexander McKinzie and John McKinzie.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 499. A Private Act.
Relinquishing to them the state's right
in two tracts of land called Elizabeth's
Diligence and Deep Point, lying in Baltimore county, and in
all the real estate to
which Ebnor Frazier had any right. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
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CHAP. LXIII.
A Further Supplement to the Act (a), entitled, An act relating
to Negroes,
and to repeal the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 503.
(a) 1796, ch. 67. See 1802,
ch. 96; 1804, ch. 90; 1817, ch. 112; and 1818, ch.
201. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
any court, or any judge or justice of this state, before whom any
negro or mulatto shall be brought as a runaway, shall be satisfied,
by competent testimony, that the said negro or mulatto is not a
runaway, before it shall be lawful for the said court, judge or justice,
to discharge the said negro or mulatto from the custody of
the person or persons detaining the said negro or mulatto as a
runaway, otherwise than by a commitment to the gaol of the county
of which he is judge or justice.
See 1817, ch. 112, s. 6. |
Court or judge
before whom any
negro is brought as
a runaway, must
be satisfied that
said negro is not a
runaway, before
he shall discharge
him.
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2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That upon any petition
for freedom
now depending, or hereafter to be brought, or upon any writ of
homine replegiando, now depending, or hereafter to be brought, in
any county court of this state, or in the court of oyer and terminer
and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, (b) provided a jury has not
been empannelled in the case, it shall and may be lawful for such
county court, or court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for
Baltimore county, upon suggestion, in writing, by the person or
persons against whom such writ or petition has or may issue or be
filed, or the plaintiff or petitioner, as the case may be, supported
by competent testimony, that the person or persons by whom the
said writ or petition has or may be issued or filed, is or are descended
from a female ancestor who was held in bondage at the
time of his or her nativity, in a county different from that in which
the said writ or petition is depending, or may be brought, and that
testimony, material and competent in the trial of the said writ or
petition, can be had in the county where the said ancestor was
held in bondage at the time of his or her nativity, to order and direct
the record of their proceedings in such writ or petition to be
transmitted to the judges of the county court of the county where
the said ancestor was held in bondage as aforesaid, and the judges
(b) By 1816, ch. 193, all the
powers, &c. of this court are transferred to and
vested in Baltimore City Court. |
In certain cases record
may be transmitted
to a different
county than
that in which petition
was filed. |
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