| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person shall
employ his vessel
as a pilot boat unless he is a licensed pilot, and follows that occupation,
under the penalty of fifty dollars for every offence, to be
recovered as herein before provided. |
1818.
CHAP. 186.
No person to employ
his vessel as a
pilot boat unless
he is licensed. |
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CHAP. CLXXXIX.
An Act authorising the Judges of the Orphans Court to bind out the
Children of Free Negroes and Mulattoes. Lib. TH.
No. 6, fol. 408. |
Passed Feb. 17, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the judges of the orphans court of the several counties in this state,
are authorised in their discretion, on information being given, or
whenever it comes to their own knowledge, that there are any child
or children of free negroes or mulattoes not at service or learning
a trade, or employed in the service of their parents, to bind and
put out such child or children to some useful trade or service, on
the same terms and conditions that orphan children are now subject
to be bound out, only that the term of service of a female may
be extended to the age of eighteen years; and that the judges aforesaid
may require as a condition in any indenture, that the said
child or children shall be taught to read or write, or in lieu thereof
a sum not exceeding thirty dollars shall be allowed in addition
to the freedom dues required by law. |
Orphans court
authorised to bind
out such children. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the said
judges shall proceed
to bind out any child or children of the description aforesaid,
they shall cause a summons to be issued, requiring the parent or
parents of such child or children to appear before the said judges
on the day when it is intended to bind out such child or children,
and that the said judges shall in all cases consult and gratify the
inclination of the parent or parents of such child or children, in
respect to their choice of a master or mistress, so far as it may
seem just and reasonable. |
Before binding
them out to summon
parents to
appear, &c. |
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CHAP. CXC.
An Act for the benefit of the Rockville Roman Catholic Congregation.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 409.
See 1816, ch. 61. |
Passed Feb. 17, 1819. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the Rockville
Roman Catholic Congregation, that they have omitted to elect
trustees of the said congregation according to the plan and regulation
of the said congregation as heretofore recorded; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful, at any convenient time during the present
year, for the aforesaid congregation to elect the trustees for
the management of the concerns of the said congregation, who
shall serve until Whitsun Monday, in the year eighteen hundred and
twenty, when a new election shall take place in the manner heretofore
prescribed by law; and on Whitsun Monday in every year
for ever thereafter, an election for trustees in the said congregation
shall take place; Provided, that if from any cause the election
is in
any year not made on the day aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the
minister, or in the absence of a minister, for any two of the persons
appointed trustees for the preceding year, to give ten days
notice in writing, set up at the church door, of the time and place
of
holding an election for trustees, and the trustees so elected shall
have all the powers and rights which they would have had if appointed
as before directed. |
Congregation to
elect trustees.
Proviso. |
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