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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
commit, or cause to be committed, any of the offences prohibited
by this act, he, she or they shall, for every such offence, by
the judgment of a single magistrate, be punished with whipping,
not exceeding twenty lashes; Provided always, that the master or
mistress of such slave, or any other person, may redeem such slave,
so convicted, from said punishment, by the payment of the fine that
would by this act have been imposed in the case of a free person. |
1801.
CHAP. 70.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. LXXI.
An Act authorising the removal of Prisoners in certain cases.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 129. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS, doubts have arisen whether any sheriff
is authorised
to remove prisoners from one gaol to another; for remedy whereof, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful for
any sheriff of any county in this state, under the direction of the
county court of his county, to remove prisoners from the gaol in
which they are or may be confined to such other gaol in the said
county as shall be directed by the said court, and such removal shall
not be considered as an escape, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Prisoners may be
removed from one
gaol to another in
the same county. |
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CHAP. LXXII.
An Act authorising the Trustees of Charlotte Hall School to lay
off a
Town in Saint-Mary's County, by the name of Charlotte's-Ville,
and
to dispose of the Lots therein by lottery. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 130.
A Supplement, 1803, ch. 37. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly,
by the
trustees of Charlotte Hall school, that it would much conduce to the
prosperity of the said school if a part of the land belonging to said
school was laid off into a town, and have prayed that a law may pass
for that purpose; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the trustees of Charlotte Hall school, or any five of them, be and
they are hereby appointed and authorised to survey so much of the
land belonging to said school as they may think proper, and the
same when surveyed to lay out into lots, streets, lanes and alleys, located
thereon, describing and arranging the said lots in numerical order,
and the streets, lanes and alleys, by their respective names, and
certifying the metes and bounds of each of the said lots, streets,
lanes and alleys, respectively, and to return the same into the office
of the clerk of Saint-Mary's county, to be by him recorded among
the land records of said county, at the proper cost of the said trustees,
and to be securely kept therein, and the said certificate and
plot, or an official copy thereof, or any part thereof, shall at all
times thereafter be sufficient evidence of said lots, streets, lanes and
alleys, and of the respective metes and bounds thereof. |
Trustees to survey
land and lay
the same out into
lots, streets, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or any five of
them, shall cause all the lots in the said town to be substantially |
Lots to be bounded
and numbered. |
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