| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
and the said chief judge shall have full power and authority
to hear, decide and determine, all offences which are not punishable
by confinement in the penitentiary (a), and which
may be committed
by any negro or mulatto slave; to award and inflict such
punishment as shall or may be by law prescribed.
(a) See 1817, ch. 190. |
1816.
CHAP. 193. |
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
sickness or necessary
absence of the chief judge, it shall be the duty of both the
associates, or either of them whom the chief judge may designate,
to attend as aforesaid in the place of the chief judge, and who shall,
while so acting, possess all the powers herein before given to the
chief judge; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the said court
to attend the said chief judge, or associates, when sitting as aforesaid,
to make such entries and records of their proceedings as the
nature of the case or cases may require, and the said clerk shall
be allowed such fees as are allowed by law for similar services. |
—If sick, to designate
the associate
who is to attend. |
18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges
or any of them,
shall have power and authority, whenever they shall have good
reason to believe that the peace and quiet of the state is likely to
be
endangered, to require, in writing, a major-general, brigadier-general,
commanding officer of a regiment, battalion, or extra
battalion, to order out the militia under his command, to assist
the civil authority in maintaining the peace and quiet of the state,
agreeably to the provisions of the sixth section of the act (b),
entitled,
An act to regulate and discipline the militia of this state.
(b) 1811, ch. 182. This
section here referred to was repealed by May 1813, ch.
19, s. 24. |
Any judge authorised
to order out
the militia.. |
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all expenses which
may be incurred
in the execution of this act, shall be paid by a levy on all
the assessable property within the said city and precincts aforesaid,
the amount of which shall be ascertained by the said court, and
certified by the clerk thereof, to the levy court of Baltimore county,
who shall cause the said assessment and levy to be made as
herein before directed.
By 1817, ch. 22, ch. 142, and ch. 195,
other expenses are to be ascertained and
levied, &c. See 1818, ch. 141. |
Expenses, how to
be paid. |
20. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any
person who shall be appointed, and shall accept the place of chief
judge, under this act, to practice law in any court of law or equity
in this state, during the time he shall hold such appointment, nor
for any associate judge to practice in any court of law. |
Judges not to practice
in any court
of law. |
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CHAP. CXCIV.
An Additional Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to establish
a
Bank and Incorporate a Company under the name
of The Havre-de-Grace
Bank. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 343. |
Passed Feb. 3, 3817.
* 1814, ch. 69. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the stockholders of the Havre-de-Grace Bank shall elect annually
ten directors from among the stockholders, seven of whom at least
shall be residents of Harford county, to conduct the business of the
institution, who shall be eligible to be re-elected, and the president
shall be elected by the directors from their own body; and the president,
with any four directors, constituting a board, are hereby empowered |
Ten directors to
be elected annually. |
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