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CHAP. 170. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to the clerk of Kent county court, and by him recorded in a book
to be kept for that purpose, within ten days from the date thereof,
or such certificate shall be void and of no effect, and the said clerk
shall have a right to demand and receive, from each free negro or
free mulatto, whose certificate he shall record, the sum of ten cents
for recording the same, and all certificates obtained and recorded
as aforesaid shall be good and available in law for twelve months
from the date thereof, and no longer. |
Penalty for selling
or buying contrary
to this act. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall sell,
buy or barter, any of the articles before mentioned, or any article
or thing whatever in Kent county, to, of, with or from, any slave
or servant, free negro or free mulatto, contrary to the provisions
of this act, that such person or persons shall forfeit and pay the
sum of forty dollars for every such offence, to be adjudged and recovered,
on indictment and conviction thereof, in the county court
of the said county, the one half for the use and benefit of the informer,
and the other half for the use and benefit of the said county. |
On failure to pay
fine may be continued
in gaol. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if, on the conviction
aforesaid,
the person or persons so convicted shall fail to pay immediately the
fine aforesaid, the county court of the said county shall order the
said person or persons, so convicted, to be confined in the public
gaol of the said county for a time not exceeding three months, at
the discretion of the said county court. |
Person counterfeiting
signature
of magistrate to be
punished. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
counterfeit or forge the signature or hand writing of any magistrate
or magistrates to any certificate or instrument of writing
giving a license to any free negro or free mulatto, to sell, buy or
barter, any article whatever, according to the fifth section of this
act, that such person or persons, for every such offence, on indictment
and conviction thereof in the county court of the said county,
shall by the judges of the said court, if a slave, be sentenced to receive
a number of lashes on his or her bare back, not exceeding
forty, and if a free person shall be ordered to be confined in the
public gaol of said county for a time not exceeding six months. |
Court to grant license
at of their discretion. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this
act contained
shall make it obligatory on the judges of Kent county court, or
any of them, to grant a license to retail spirituous liquors, strong
beer or cider, in Kent county, to any applicant who shall comply
with the provisions of this act, but the granting of the same shall
be at the discretion of the said judges, or any of them. |
Negroes travelling
may be entertained. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this law shall
not be construed
to prevent ordinary keepers from entertaining negroes or mulattoes
travelling through the said county. |
Act to be given in
charge to grand
juries. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
be given in charge
to the grand jury of the aforesaid county court at the beginning of
every term of the said court. |
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Passed Feb. 9, 1819.
* 1817, ch. 16. |
CHAP. CLXXI.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to establish a Bank, and
incorporate a Company, under the title of The
Planters Bank of
Prince George's County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
385. |
Concerns of bank,
how to be managed. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the concerns of The Planters Bank of Prince-George's county
shall be managed by twelve directors, and a president, the directors |
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