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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
to be inconvenient and oppressive to persons in this state
owning slaves that reside near the lines of other states; therefore, |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 76. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for any citizen of this state, to hire,
remove
or work, any of his or her slaves, in any adjoining county of
any other state, and to bring them into this state again, as often
as the owner or proprietor may think proper, where the laws of
the state into which said slaves may be carried do not prohibit the
same, without being obliged to deliver a list of them to be recorded
in the clerk's office of the county as heretofore required, and to retain
and enjoy them as slaves; Provided, the said slave or slaves
shall not be kept out of this state longer than twelve months at any
one time. |
Slaves may be hired
out in an adjoining
county of
another state. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for any
citizen of any other state, owning slaves in any county adjoining
this state, to hire or work any of his or her slaves in this state, as
often as the owner or proprietor may think proper, without being
obliged to deliver a list of them to be recorded in the clerk's office
as heretofore required, and to hold and enjoy them as slaves; Provided,
the said slave or slaves shall not be kept in this state longer
than twelve months at any one time. |
Slaves in an adjoining
state may
be hired in this
state.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no negro or slave,
that hath been
or shall be hired, removed, or worked out of this state, in any adjoining
county of any other state, shall be entitled to freedom on
account of such removal; Provided, they have not been, or shall
not be kept out of this state more than twelve months at any one
time as aforesaid, any thing in the act to which this is a supplement,
and the supplementary acts thereto, to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Slaves so hired not
to be entitled to
freedom in consequence
thereof.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall be
construed or taken to affect the right of any negro or slave, who
hath petitioned for his or her freedom, previous to the passage of
this act. |
No to affect slaves
petitioning for
freedom. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED That so much of the act
to which this
is a supplement, and the supplementary acts thereto, which is inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, shall be and the same are
hereby repealed. |
Acts inconsistent
with this repealed. |
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CHAP. LXXVII.
A Further Additional Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act for
the
relief of sundry Insolvent Debtors. Lib. TH.
No. 3, fol. 408. |
Passed Dec. 16.
* 1805, ch. 10. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all deeds, conveyances, transfers, assignments, or sales of any property,
real, personal or mixed, or of any debts, rights or claims,
to any creditor or creditors, security or securities, which shall hereafter
be made by any person with a view, or under an expectation
of being or becoming an insolvent debtor, and with an intent thereby
to give an undue and improper preference to such creditor or creditors,
security or securities, shall be absolutely null and void, and
the title to property or claims so attempted to be conveyed, transferred,
assigned or sold, shall vest in the trustee or trustees of such
insolvent debtors, as effectually as any property specified in the
schedule of such insolvent.
See 1807, ch. 55. |
Deeds, &c. made
with an intent of
becoming insolvent
declared void. |
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