| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
to be engaged in a duel, he may issue his warrant to bring the parties
before him, and if he shall think proper to take of them a recognizance
to keep the peace, he shall insert in the condition, that
the party or parties shall not, during the time for which they were
bound, directly or indirectly be concerned in a duel, either with
the persons suspected, or any other person, within the time limited
by the recognizance. |
1816.
CHAP. 219.
to be engaged in a
duel, may issue
warrant, &c. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall,
for the purpose of eluding the operation of the provisions of this
law, leave the state, the person or persons so offending shall be
deemed as guilty, and be subject to the like penalties as if the offence
had been committed within this state; if any person shall
leave this state with the intention of giving or receiving a challenge
to fight a duel, or of aiding or abetting in giving or receiving such
challenge, and a duel shall actually be fought, whereby the death
of any person shall happen, and the person so leaving the state
shall remain thereout so as to prevent his apprehension for the purpose
of a trial; or if any person shall fight a duel in this state, or
aid or abet therein, whereby any person shall be killed, and then
flee into another state to avoid his trial, in either case it shall be
the duty of the executive, and they are hereby directed, to adopt
and pursue all legal steps to cause any such offender to be apprehended
and brought to trial in the county where the offence was
committed, when the duel shall have been fought within the state,
and when it shall have been fought without the state, then in that
county where, in the opinion of the executive, the evidence against
the offender can be best obtained and produced upon his trial. |
Persons leaving
the state to evade
this law to be subject
to its penalties. |
| 7. This act shall be in force from teh first
day of April next. |
When to be in
force. |
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CHAP. CCXX.
An Act to Incorporate the Potomac Turnpike Company. Lib.
TH.
No. 5, fol. 377. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company be incorporated for making a turnpike road from some
point at or near the junction of the north and south branches of the
Potomac river, in the state of Maryland, through the town of
Skipton, and thence to the town of Cumberland, in Allegany county. |
Direction of road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
for a capital
stock of sixty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each,
be opened, and that subscriptions be taken for thirty thousand
dollars of the same at the town of Skipton aforesaid, under the
direction of James M. Cresap, Jacob Lantz and Lenox Martin;
for thirty thousand dollars in the town of Cumberland under
teh direction of William McMahon, David Shriver, junior, and
John Barbridge, who are appointed commissioners for that purpose;
who shall, on the first Monday of July next, procure books, and
enter as follows: " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do
promise to pay to the president and managers and company of the
Potomac Turnpike, the sum of twenty dollars for each share of
stock in the said company opposite our respective names, agreeably
to an act of the general assembly of Maryland, entitled, An
act to incorporate the Potomac Turnpike Company. Witness our
hands this _____ day of _____, eighteen hundred and _____:" and |
Subscription
books to be opened. |
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