CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

    Directions as to criminals escaping from other
states,
    Punishment for forging any manifest or note for tobacco,
or altering the quantity, &c.
—For knowingly exporting tobacco marked with a
forged stamp, or demanding tobacco on a forged
note,
—For putting tobacco into a hogshead marked by
an inspector, &c.
—The testimony of inspectors to be admitted,
—For selling or producing forged certificates as to
tobacco notes lost,
—For perjury relating thereto,
    In all criminal cases, (except for capital felonies and
treasons,) a privilege given to strike out from a pannel
of twenty jurors, &c.
    When sentence of death passed on a slave is commuted
by the governor, the valuation to be paid by the
treasurer,
    The party prosecuted for a libel entitled to give the
truth in evidence by way of justification,
    A supplement to the act of 1799, ch. 58, to provide
for the administration of justice in cases of crimes and
misdemeanors in the city and county of Baltimore,
—The 3d section of that act repealed,

    Acts relating to vagrants in Baltimore,

    On suggestion, in writing, by a party indicted, supported
by affidavit, that a fair trial cannot be had in
the court, the record to be removed to any adjoining
county court for trial,
—Proviso that further remedy by law may be given,
—To be removed on such suggestion in writing by
the attorney general or prosecutor for the state,
—Further regulations respecting the removal,
    All causes, civil and criminal, to be returned to the
county courts then established,
    All commitments and recognizances for felonies,
crimes, &c. to be returned by the justices on the first
day of the court,
—Not to alter the powers of the court of oyer and
terminer for Baltimore county, or to give criminal jurisdiction
to Baltimore county court,
    Persons mixing meal with wheat flour for sale, &c.
to be fined and imprisoned,
—Duty of magistrates as to recognizances, &c.
    Candidates, or other persons, giving any reward, &c.
or keeping or suffering to be kept any booth, &c. on
the day of an election, to be punished by fine and imprisonment,
    See Bribery.
    Persons committing any crime, &c. upon the Chesapeake
bay, within the state, and without the body of
any county, may be indicted and tried in the county
where they are apprehended or first brought,
—The prosecution may be removed after indictment,
by suggestion, on affidavit, that a fair trial cannot
be had, &c.
    In all criminal prosecutions against any negro or
mulatto slave, or against any mulatto descended from a
white woman, or against any negro or mulatto slave, or
of any mulatto descendant from a white woman, or
of any negro or mulatto free or freed, may be received
in evidence for or against them,
    Power given to the criminal court in Baltimore as
to writs of habeas corpus,
—Punishment of slaves for manslaughter,

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  1801        63  26
 

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  1802        69
 

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  1803        54
 

  1804        65
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  1818      169

  1804        55    3
Confirmed by
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  1807      165

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  1808        81

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