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CHAP. 63. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the county court to whom the said record shall be transmitted,
shall hear and determine the same in like manner as if the same
had originally been brought or filed therein. |
Record may also
be transmitted to
county where
owner resides. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any petitions
for freedom
have or may be filed hereafter in any county court of this state, or
in the court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore
county, (a) by any petitioner who was or shall be in the county
where the said petition was or may be filed by permission of his or
her owner, which said owner was or shall not be an actual resident
of the county where the said petition was or may be filed, at
the time when the same was or may be filed, the said county court,
or court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore
county, are hereby authorised and required, upon suggestion in
writing, supported by competent testimony, that the person thus
claiming to be the owner of the said petitioner had actually held
the said petitioner in bondage, and that the said petitioner
was in the county where the said petition has or may
be filed by the permission of his owner, and that the said
owner is not, or was not, an actual resident of the county where
and when the said petition was or may be filed, to permit the said
owner to appear and defend the said action, and to order and direct
the record of the proceedings on such petition to be transmitted
to the court of the county where the said owner resided at the
time when the said petition was or may be filed, and the judges of
the county court to whom the said record shall be transmitted,
shall hear and determine the same in like manner as if such petition
had originally been filed therein.
(a) See note to section 2. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. LXIV.
An Act to confirm a Road in Harford and Baltimore Counties therein
mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 504.
Supplements, ch. 91; 1811, ch. 4; and November 1812, ch. 54. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by a resolution of the general assembly
of Maryland,
passed at November session, eighteen hundred and nine,
William C. Goldsmith, Abraham Cole, John S. Belt, John Clendennen
and William Whiteford, were appointed to examine the situation
of the neighbourhood lying between Slade's tavern, in Baltimore
county, and the upper cross roads in Harford county, and
report to the general assembly whether a road commencing at
or near Thomas Hope's, and thence running until it intersects the
road leading from Slade's tavern to Cromwell's bridge, would, if
opened and laid out, be conducive to the public convenience, and if
they should be of opinion it would be proper to open the said road,
that they should make a location of the same, and return it with
their proceedings to the next general assembly; And whereas the
said commissioners did, in pursuance of the authority vested in
them by the said resolution, take into consideration the situation of
the neighbourhood, and were unanimously of opinion that the public
convenience required that a road should be opened in the place
contemplated by the said resolution, and having located the same
have made return thereof to this general assembly, under their
hands and seals; And whereas this general assembly are willing
to promote the public convenience, therefore, |
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