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CHAP. 72.
Provisos. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and to fix and regulate the salaries and compensation of
said keeper, and all such persons as they shall from time to time
appoint, hire, or employ; Provided, that the salary for the said
keeper shall not exceed thirteen hundred dollars, the salary for the
clerk and agent shall not exceed eight hundred dollars each, and
the salary of the deputy keepers and guards shall not exceed, for
each assistant keeper and guard so employed, the sum now allowed
by law; And provided also, that no perquisite shall be allowed to
the said keeper, or other persons employed in conducting the affairs
of the said penitentiary, beyond the salaries aforesaid; which
said salaries shall be paid as heretofore. |
When persons confined
are accused,
convicts to be admitted
as evidence. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That convicts confined
in the penitentiary
shall be admitted as witnesses in all cases where any person
confined in the penitentiary may be accused, or on trial, for any offence
whatever, committed while thus confined in the penitentiary,
both for and against such accused persons, any law, custom or
usage, to the contrary notwithstanding. |
No coloured person
to be sentenced
for less than
one year. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That hereafter no coloured
person (a)
shall be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary, on conviction
in a court of justice, for any offence, for any time less than one year,
but that in all cases, where the time prescribed by law for the punishment
of any offence by confinement in the penitentiary is less
than one year, or the court in the exercise of their discretion shall
deem the punishment of confinement in the penitentiary for one
year or more to exceed the limits of justice, they may sentence the
party to such fine, public whipping, and if in the city of Baltimore,
at the prison yard thereof, or imprisonment in the gaol of the county,
or both, as in their discretion may be right and proper.
(a) By 1818, ch. 197, no negro
or mulatto slave, convicted of any crime perpetrated
after the passage of this act, to be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary. |
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Passed Jan. 29, 1818. |
CHAP. LXXIII.
An Act to regulate the Charges on Tobacco in Prince-George's County.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 569.
See 1801, ch. 63. |
One dollar per
hhd to be paid for
inspection. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
from and after the first day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen,
there shall be paid for tobacco inspected in Prince-George's county,
the sum of one dollar for each hogshead, which sum shall be paid
to the inspector on the delivery thereof. |
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Passed Jan. 30, 1818. |
CHAP. LXXIV.
An Act authorising the Levy Court of Somerset County to levy and
assess
a sum of money for certain purposes therein mentioned
(b).
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 569.
(b) Viz. For erecting a
building for the accommodation of the Register of
Wills, and clerk of the county court, &c.
A Supplement, 1818, ch. 146, whereby this act is repealed. |
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Passed Jan. 30, 1818. |
CHAP. LXXV.
An Act to empower Thomas W. Griffith, late Collector of Baltimore
County, to complete his Collections, and for other purposes.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 570. |
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