FREE NEGROES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FRENCH-TOWN
 

FUGITIVE FELONS
 

GAITHER, JANE
 

GAMING

    Provision that no coloured person should be sentenced
to confinement in the penitentiary, on conviction for
any offence, for a term less than a year,
    In such cases, or where the court should deem the
confinement for one year or more to exceed the limits
of justice, they might inflict corporal punishment, or
confinement in the gaol, or both,
    An act to prevent the unlawful exportation of negroes
and mulattoes, and to alter and amend the laws concerning
runaways,
    See Negroes and Slaves.
    Retailers of liquors, in Calvert, Anne-Arundel, and
Saint Mary's counties, not to suffer free negroes, &c.
to be in their store-houses, &c. between sun-set and sun-rise,
—Penalty on persons so suffering them,
—Appropriation and recovery thereof,
—The person liable to imprisonment, if unable to
pay,
—Directions concerning the evidence,
    Persons receiving from any negro or mulatto any
goods, &c. to be considered as dealing with him, and
subject to the like penalties,
—Not to extend to cases where by law property may
be bought of a negro, &c.
—Nothing herein to extend to negroes, &c. employed
as wagoners, or travellers stopping,
    This act to be given in charge to the grand jury,
    An act to prevent persons from dealing with free negroes
after sun-set in Kent county, &c.
    The provisions of the act of 1817, ch. 227, as to selling
liquor to free negroes, &c. extended to Prince-George's,
Somerset, Dorchester, Charles, and Talbot
counties, &c.
    The judges of the orphans courts authorised to bind
out the children of free negroes or mulattoes,
—The parents to be first summoned, &c.
    Declared not lawful for the courts to sentence negro
or mulatto slaves, or free negroes or mulattoes, to undergo
a confinement in the penitentiary,

    In Cæcil county, a road to be made therefrom to
the Delaware line, &c.

    See Felons.
                                        G.

    Of Anne-Arundel county—money to be levied for
her support,

   No E O, A B C, L S D, X Y Z, Faro Table, or
other device, (except Billiard tables,) for the purpose
of gaming for money, &c. shall be kept in any house,
or at any place, on pain of forfeiting such table, and
$200 for every offence,
    Duty of justices on complaint or information, or on
their own view, to suppress such tables, &c.
—On resistance, they may commit the offenders to
the sheriff or constable,
—Those officers may summon the posse comitatus,
    Duty also of the justices as aforesaid to issue warrants
to the sheriffs, &c. against the offenders, who may be
made to enter into recognizance for their appearance
at the next county court, and to return the said recognizances,
    The county courts to give this act in charge to the
grand juries,

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  1809        64
  1813        82

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  1818        75
 
 
 

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