CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
CROP
CROWS
CULLINGS, JONATHAN
CUMBERLAND |
INDEX TO THE LAWS.
Every person knowingly selling a servant
or slave entitled
to freedom after a term of years, &c. to any person
not a resident for one year next preceding, or his
agent, shall, on conviction be sentenced to confinement
in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding two
years,
—Same, on selling such servant or slave for a longer
time than he is bound to serve,
—Same, on persons knowingly purchasing such
servant or slave as described in that section—principal
or agent,
—Such persons, unknowingly purchasing, and afterwards
giving information on oath, to a justice, not
liable to prosecution,
Justices to take recognizances in
cases of suspicion,
Punishment for setting fire to or
burning the bridge
over Susquehannah, near Rock Run,
The third section of the act of 1816,
ch. 219, to suppress
duelling, repealed,
Free persons convicted of enticing
any slave or servant
to run away, or harbouring such slave, &c. to undergo
a confinement in the penitentiary not exceeding
six years,
Declared not lawful for the courts
to sentence negro
or mulatto slaves convicted of any crime after the passage
of this act to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary,
—Such negroes, &c. convicted of any crime perpetrated
after the passage of this act, which may not
in the discretion of the court, be punished by hanging,
to be whipped, or to be banished by transportation and
sale into some foreign country, or some one of the
United States, or territories, other than the District
of
Columbia,
—Directions for the valuation and payment,
The crop growing on the lands of a
deceased person
at the time of his death to be assets,
The crop not to be valued for the
public assessment,
The destruction of crows encouraged
in Montgomery
county,
—Former acts repealed,
—Same in Caroline and Talbot counties,
—Same in Prince George's, Cæcil, Charles, Baltimore,
and Worcester counties,
—Same in Dorchester county,
The act of 1807, ch. 71, repealed,
as it related to
Saint Mary's county,
The destruction of crows encouraged
in St. Mary's
county,
So much of the act of 1809, ch. 203,
as related to
Queen-Anne's county, repealed,
The act of 1807, ch. 71, as far as
it related to Kent
county, repealed,
The several acts for their destruction
repealed as to
Somerset and Calvert counties,
The act of 1807, ch. 71, repealed
as to Anne Arundel
county,
Of Baltimore county—money to be levied
for his
support,
In Allegany county—a lottery authorised
for purchasing
a fire engine, and erecting a bridge over
Will's creek,
—Erected into a town, &c. |
Session. Ch. S.
1817 112
1
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2
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5
—— 153
7
—— 222
1818 157
2
—— 197
1
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2
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1802 101
2
1807 136
1
1812 191
1
1803
96
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1804
35
1807
71
1809 203
1813
5
1816
3
—— 69
1817
10
—— 147
1818
21
1811
77
1804
3
1805
92
1816
79 |
