BALTIMORE COUNTY
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

BANISHMENT

    The president of the levy court directed to sign deeds
for property sold, and annex the seal of the court,
    Provision for the expenses of the late criminal court,
    Directions for the appointment of collectors, &c.
    A slave therein mentioned to be assessed and paid
for,
    The time for taking the sheriff's bond extended,
    Five trustees of the poor-house to be annually appointed,
—Powers conferred by former acts to be vested in
them,
—Certain duties prescribed,
—A supplement vesting the appointment in the levy
court, &c.
    An act to provide for a new assessment, and to appoint
collectors of the county tax in and for the city
and county of Baltimore,
    A bridge to be built over Patapsco at Hammond's
ferry,
    The levy court authorised to levy money for building
the bridges therein mentioned, and altering the
road if necessary,
    The Washington and Baltimore Canal Company incorporated,
    The act of 1816, ch. 29, securing to the sheriff the
gaol fees of certain insolvent debtors, repealed,
    A bridge to be erected over Patapsco falls at Ellicott's
old upper mills,
    The trustees of Garretson Forest Academy incorporated,
    Part of the claim of Matthew Murray late sheriff, to
be apportioned to and paid by Baltimore county as other
expenses of the gaol,
    The erection of booths for selling liquor prohibited
within two miles of any Methodist Camp or Quarterly
Meeting,
    The allowance to jurors increased,
    Money to be levied to build a bridge over the Great
Falls of Gunpowder at Meredith's Ford,
    The pay of the judges of the orphans court increased,
    Plate presented to the late Colonel George Armistead
exempted from taxation,
    The trustees of the poor authorised to receive releases
of lots before belonging to the poor house affected by
the shutting up of Madison-street, &c.
    Directions as to accounts for the maintenance of the
gaol, &c. and administration of justice in the county
court,
    No person shall be imprisoned for any debt within
the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, unless the creditor
shall pay or secure 25 cents per day for his maintenance,
—Not to extend to persons committed for a fine or
for a criminal act,
—The sheriff to be allowed for a gate keeper,
    The acts and proceedings of J. Steward and T. Tenant
as justices in 1818, declared valid,
    The levy court empowered to appoint a person to act
as treasurer, and to allow him a compensation,
—Bond to be given by such person,
    A compensation directed to be paid to the person who
had received and disbursed money in 1818,
    The expenses for ascertaining the taxable limits to be
assessed and paid,

    Negro or mulatto slaves convicted of any crime therein
mentioned, (not punishable by hanging,) may be
sentenced to corporal punishment, and also to banish

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