| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
36. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said county
shall annually levy the sum necessary to carry into effect the provisions
of this law, to be appropriated by them as justice may require. |
1817.
CHAP. 110.
Annual levy. |
37. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever any person
or persons
shall be convicted of neglect of duty under this act, or shall die, it
shall be lawful for the justices of the levy court, in their discretion,
to rescind the contract made with such person or persons, and
to let out the particular division of road bid off by such person or
persons, to any other person or persons, according to the provisions
aforesaid. |
On neglect of duty
court may rescind
contract. |
38. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this
act contained
shall prevent the levy court of said county from making a special
contract for making a new bridge in said county, or repairing any
bridge, nor shall the provisions of this act be construed to interfere
with the duties imposed by law upon the owner of a water-mill, but
the levy court may make an allowance to him, which in no case
shall exceed the amount of his county levy. |
Court not prevented
from making
special contract
for bridges. |
39. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
act, entitled,
" An act to change and alter the mode of repairing the public roads
in Worcester county." passed December session eighteen hundred
and sixteen*, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be
and the same are hereby repealed. |
Repeal.
* Ch. 181. |
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CHAP. CXI.
An Act to regulate the Clerk's Fees in the Chancery Proceedings
in the
County Courts, and for other purposes. Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 650.
See November 1812, ch. 32. |
Passed Feb. 2, 1818. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the clerks of the respective county courts, for any services to be
performed by them in chancery proceedings in said courts, shall be
entitled to the same fees now allowed to the register in chancery
for like services, and no more, and the said clerks shall not demand,
ask for, or receive, any higher or other fees for such services. |
Clerks allowed
same fees as register
in chancery. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the criers of the
several county
courts within this state, shall be entitled to receive two dollars per
day for every day they shall attend the terms established for chancery
business, to be levied, collected and paid, as other county
charges. |
Criers fees. |
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CHAP. CXII.
An Act to prevent the unlawful exportation of Negroes and Mulattoes,
and to alter and amend the Laws concerning Runaways.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 1.
See 1802, ch. 96; 1810, ch. 15, and ch. 63. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1818. |
WHEREAS the laws heretofore enacted for preventing
the kidnapping
of free negroes and mulattoes, and of transporting out of
this state negroes and mulattoes entitled to their freedom after a
term of years, have been found insufficient to restrain the commission
of such crimes and misdemeanors; and it hath been found
moreover, that servants and slaves have been seduced from the
service of their masters and owners, and fraudulently removed out
of this state; and that the children of free negroes and mulattoes |
Preamble. |
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