| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the proceeds arising
from the
sale of the present poor-house and lands, shall be applied to the
payment of the purchase money of the lands and premises and improvement
authorised to be made in virtue of this law. |
1817.
CHAP. 102.
Proceeds, how to
be applied. |
24. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the several acts
of assembly (a)
heretofore made and provided, relative to the support of the poor
of Caroline county, be and the same is hereby repealed from and
after the first Monday in April next.
(a) November 1788, ch. 14; 1800,
ch. 7; 1801, ch. 43; and 1808, ch. 98. |
Acts repealed. |
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CHAP. CIII.
An Act to authorise the Levy Court of Frederick County to increase
the pay of the Overseer of the Poor in said County.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 634. |
Passed Feb. 4, 1818. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the levy court of Frederick county are hereby authorised, in their
discretion, to allow to the overseer of the poor of said county such
sum of money in addition to his present pay as in their judgment
shall be just and reasonable for his services.
See 1811, ch. 162. |
Additional allowance. |
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CHAP. CIV.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to prevent the inconveniencies
arising from Slaves being permitted to act as free.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 635. |
Passed Feb. 4, 1818.
* April 1787, ch. 33. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
any person who shall permit and authorise any slave belonging to
him or herself, in his or her own right, or possessed in the right
of another, or in whom he or she may have special property, to go
at large, or hire him or herself within this state, shall incur a penalty
not exceeding twenty dollars for every month such slave shall
go at large or hire him or herself, and at the same rate for any
shorter time than one month, except twenty days at harvest. |
Penalty for permitting
slaves to
go at large. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person who
shall hire a
slave, or contract with such slave, shall incur a penalty of twenty
dollars, except as before excepted; Provided, that any person may
permit his slave, being a pilot, to hire himself in such capacity,
and any person may employ as a pilot any slave known, or generally
reported to be, a pilot, before the passage of this act. |
For hiring or contracting
with
slaves.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the penalties inflicted
in virtue
of this act shall and may be recovered, with costs, in the county
court of the county where the offence may happen, by indictment. |
How to be recovered. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be and
is hereby made the
duty of the presiding judge in each county, to give this act in charge
to the grand jury on the first day of the meeting of the county court,
during the continuance of this act. |
Act to be given in
charge to grand
jury. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the operation of
this act shall
commence on the first day of April eighteen hundred and nineteen. |
When act to commence. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such parts
of the act to which
this is a supplement that are inconsistent with, or repugnant to, the
provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
Repeal. |
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