| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
any custom, pretended contract, promise or agreement, made beyond
sea, to the contrary notwithstanding. |
1817.
CHAP. 226. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all masters of
vessels arriving
at any harbour, port or place, within this state, shall in case of the
death of any German or Swiss emigrant, within ten days after his,
her, or their arrival, deliver to said register an accurate inventory,
under oath, of all the property of such emigrant on board of such
vessel, under the penalty of two hundred dollars, to be recovered
as other fines are recoverable, and that the said register shall dispose
at public sale of the same, and apply the proceeds to the payment
of the passage money due by such emigrant, or said register
may appraise the same, and the master or owners of the vessel
may take such property at the appraised value in part payment or
satisfaction of the claim for passage money; Provided always, that
if the passenger died before the expiration of one half of the duration
of the voyage, no passage money shall be due, but the heirs
of the deceased shall be entitled to the proceeds, and the register
shall be accountable for them to such heirs. |
In case of death
on board vessel,
masters to deliver
inventories to register,
&c. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said register
shall be entitled for
writing the deed of indenture, and registering the matters above
mentioned, to the same fees as a notary public, and for the sale or
appraisement of property in manner aforesaid, he shall be entitled
to five per cent. commission on the gross amount; and if the proceeds
arising from the sale as aforesaid should remain in hand uncalled
for during three years, after publication in two newspapers,
one of which shall be in Baltimore, which publication shall be
made immediately after the sale, in such case the proceeds, without
interest, shall be paid over by the register to the treasurer of the
German Society of Maryland, for the use of said society. |
Register's fees. |
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CHAP. CCXXVII.
An Act for the better protection of Slaveholders in the several
Counties
therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 169.
A Supplement, 1818, ch. 184. |
Passed Feb. 16, 1818. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of May next, it shall not be lawful for
any licensed retailer or retailers in Calvert county, Anne-Arundel
county, and Saint-Mary's county (a), or for any person or persons
residing in either of those counties, accustomed to make and sell
distilled spirits, or other liquors, to suffer any free negro or mulatto,
or any negro or mulatto servant or slave, to be in his, her, or
their store-house, or other house wherein he, she or they may be
accustomed to sell distilled spirits, or other liquors, between sunset
in the evening, and sun-rise of the succeeding morning; Provided
always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to
extend to the case of such aforesaid servant or slave, as shall have
a written order or license for that purpose, from his master, mistress,
overseer, or other person in whose employment he may actually
be, with the consent of his owner or owners.
(a) By 1818, ch. 184, the provisions
of this act, which are not repugnant to
the provisions of that act, are declared to be in full force and effect
in Prince-George's,
Somerset, Dorchester, Charles, and Talbot counties. |
No retailer to suffer
negroes in his
house after sun-set. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall
suffer or permit any negro or mulatto to be in his, her, or their |
Penalty for so doing. |
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