PENITENTIARY
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PENN, JACOB
 

PENNSYLVANIA
 

PENSION

PENSIONERS
 
 

PEREMPTORY
 CHALLENGE
PERJURY
 
 
 
 
 
 

PERMITS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PERSONAL ACTION

    The inspectors to be styled the Directors,
—Empowered to appoint the keeper, and to remove
him at pleasure; to appoint deputies, assistants, officers,
&c. and to hire guards,
—To fix and regulate the salaries and compensation
of the keeper, and all such persons as they shall hire
or employ,
    Provided that the salary for the keeper shall not exceed
$1300, that of the clerk and agent shall not exceed
$800 each, and that of the deputy keepers and guards
shall not exceed the sum now allowed by law,
    Provided also, that no perquisite shall be allowed to
the said keeper, or other persons employed, beyond
the said salaries, which are to be paid as heretofore,
    Provision that no coloured person should be confined
in the penitentiary for any time less than one year,
but corporally punished.  See Negroes and Slaves.
    When servants or slaves are sold out of the penitentiary,
the keeper to deposit the money in some bank in
Baltimore, and inform the clerk of the county, to be
subject to the order of the levy court,
    Free persons enticing any slave or servant to runaway,
or harbouring such slave, to be confined in the
penitentiary, &c.  See Crimes.
    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,
    Manner of punishing such negroes, &c. and provision
for valuation and payment.  See Crimes.

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

    An act of that state recited respecting a road company,
and declared to be a law of this state,

    See Half Pay.

    Acts respecting out-pensioners in different counties,
    See Poor.
 

    Provision concerning,

    Any person convicted of taking a false oath or affirmation
concerning the loss of a tobacco note, to suffer
as in case of wilful and corrupt perjury,
    Every person convicted of the crime of perjury, or
subornation of perjury, to be sentenced to the penitentiary
not less than 5 nor more than 10 years,
    Inspectors or keepers convicted of swearing falsely in
the premises, to suffer as in the case of wilful and corrupt
perjury,

    The county clerks empowered, during the recess,
when no associate judge resides in the county, to grant
permits, in all cases where an associate justice heretofore
could, and in the same manner, &c.
    The money to be paid and accounted for as for other
licenses, and recognizance filed, &c.
    The 47th clause of the act of 1805, ch. 65, repealed,
    If intended for any other person (in certain counties,)
the permit not to be granted,

    The right to recover the forfeiture against officers
not making returns of writs of habeas corpus not to
cease by the death of either or both parties,

  1817       72    1
 

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  1818      157    1
 

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  1808        82
 

  1813      126
 

  1809        84
  1814        48
 ——        80
  1815      116

  1809      138  13
  1816        45
 

  1801        63  28

  1809      138    8
 

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  1816      242

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  1817      227    6
 

  1809      125    3