| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
slave, convicted of any crime perpetrated after the passage
of this act, to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary of this
state, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
1818.
CHAP. 197. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any negro or
mulatto slave
shall be duly convicted of any crime perpetrated after the passage
of this act, which may not, in the discretion of the court, under
the laws of this state, be punished by hanging by the neck, such
negro or mulatto slave may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced
to receive on his or her bare back, any number of lashes
not exceeding forty, or the court may sentence such negro or mulatto
slave to be banished from this state, by transportation and
sale into some foreign country, or some one of the United States, or
territories thereof, other than the District of Columbia, for the benefit
of the state or county, as the case may be, such negro or mulatto
slave to be valued and paid for, as is now or shall hereafter be
directed by law. |
May be whipped
or banished the
state for certain offences. |
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CHAP. CXCVIII.
An Act to provide for the grading of the Streets therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 426. |
Passed Feb. 18, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the mayor and council of Baltimore be and they are hereby authorised
and required, to cause the new grades of the streets, lanes
and alleys, between Light-street and Franklin-lane in said city, to
be ascertained and established, wherever such new grades have become
necessary by the extension of Pratt-street. |
Mayor and city
council to ascertain
new grades of
streets. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the property
on the streets,
lanes or alleys aforesaid, by such new grading, and the consequent
manner of improving the same, when such manner shall be determined
upon by the said corporation, shall sustain damage other than
was considered of or estimated by the assessors, or by the court,
under the law providing for the opening of Pratt-street*, then the
owner or owners of such property may suggest the same to the
judges of Baltimore county court, who shall appoint seven suitable
persons assessors, not interested in any property within the said limits,
who, upon oath or affirmation, shall value and ascertain, all advantages
and disadvantages considered, such alleged damage other
than was considered of or estimated by the assessors or court as
aforesaid, and report the same, and the property on which it may
be allowed, with the names of the owners, to the clerk of Baltimore
county court, who shall forthwith publish the return of such report
in one or more newspapers of the city; and any person aggrieved
by such ascertainment of damage, may, by petition, within
one month after such notice, to the said judges, have the same reviewed
by them, and they may enlarge or diminish such damages,
and correct said report, as under all circumstances they shall think
right and proper; and they shall also make and ascertain such reasonable
allowance to said assessors, and the other expenses attending
the execution of this act, as shall appear to them just and right. |
Property damaged
by such new grading
other than estimated,
to be
valued. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said mayor
and city council
be and they are hereby authorised and required, to provide for the
satisfying the said damages and expenses, when ascertained as
aforesaid, by paying the one third part, and causing the other two
thirds to be assessed, levied and collected, on the property ascertained |
Such damages to
be satisfied. |
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