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CHAP. 218. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
respectively, be and they are hereby authorised and required
to borrow money for the purpose of their carrying into effect
within their respective districts the provisions of this act, and to
pledge therefor any levy or assessment herein authorised to be laid
or collected under their respective appointments or authority. |
This act not to authorise
the extension
of Pratt or
Lombard-streets. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this
act contained
shall be construed to authorise the opening or extension of Pratt-street
or Lombard-street, within the city of Baltimore, or to authorise
the pulling down of any house or building now occupied as a
dwelling, warehouse, store, work-shop, manufactory, or place of
worship, without the assent in writing of the owner or owners first
had and obtained.
By 1817, ch. 148, so much of this act
as is supplied by or inconsistent with the
provisions of that act, is repealed. |
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Passed Feb. 4, 1817. |
CHAP. CCXIX.
An Act to Suppress Duelling.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 375. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS experience has evinced that the existing
remedy for
the suppression of the barbarous custom of duelling is inadequate to
the purpose, and the progress and consequences of the evil have
become so destructive as to require an effort on the part of the legislature
to arrest a vice the result of ignorance and barbarism,
justified neither by the precepts of morality nor be the dictates of
reason; therefore, |
Persons fighting
duels to be confined
in penitentiary. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
any person who shall hereafter wilfully and maliciously, or by
previous agreement, fight a duel, or single combat, with any engine,
instrument or weapon, the probable consequence of which
might be the death of either party, and in so doing shall kill his
antagonist, or any other person or persons, or inflict such wound
as that the person injured shall die thereof within twelve months
and a day thereafter, such offender, his aiders, abettors and counsellors,
being thereof duly convicted, shall be sentenced to undergo
a confinement in the penitentiary-house for a period not less than
five nor more than eighteen years, any law, custom or usage, of
this state, to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Persons challenging,
to be incapable
of holding any
office of profit or
trust. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person whatsoever
shall
challenge another to fight a duel with any weapon, or in any manner
whatsoever, the probable issue of which may or might result
in the death of the challenger or challenged, or if any person shall
accept a challenge, or fight a duel with any weapon, or in any
way whatsoever, the probable issue of which may or might terminate
in the death of the challenger or challenged, such person
shall be incapable of holding or being elected to any post or profit,
trust or emolument, civil or military, in this state.
3. This section repealed by 1817,
ch. 222. |
Judges to give in
charge to juries all
the laws to suppress
duelling. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the judges
of the several county courts at their respective terms, to give in
charge expressly to the jury, all the laws in force to suppress duelling,
also to charge the jury to present all persons concerned in
carrying, sending, or accepting a challenge. |
Any judge or magistrate,
having
cause to suspect
any person about |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any judge
of magistrate of
this state has good cause to suspect any person or persons are about |
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