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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XC.
A Further Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act relating to Negroes,
and to repeal the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 675.
Other supplements, 1805, ch. 66; 1807,
ch. 164; 1810, ch. 15, ch. 63; Nov. 1812,
ch. 76. See also 1801, ch. 109; 1802, ch. 68, ch.
96; 1804, ch. 89; 1805,
ch. 80; 1806, ch. 81; 1808, ch. 81; Dec. 1813, ch. 56;
1814, ch. 92, and 1817,
ch. 112. |
1804.
CHAP. 90.
Passed Jan. 19, 1805.
* 1796, ch. 67. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
if any person shall apply, by petition in writing, to the county
court of the county wherein such person shall reside, setting forth,
that any negro or mulatto, to whose services he was or is entitled
for a limited time or number of years, has run away or departed
from the service of such person, during such time of servitude, it
shall
be lawful for such court, on being satisfied of the truth of the facts
set forth in such petition, and that such departure from service hath
not been caused by the ill treatment or misconduct of the petitioner,
or person under whom he or she claims, to adjudge such negro or
mulatto to serve the person petitioning, or his lawful assigns, such
length of time after such negro or mulatto would have been entitled
to freedom, or for such length of time after the date of the judgment,
as justice and equity may require, and as the court under all
circumstances, shall think reasonable; Provided, that no negro
or
mulatto so adjudged, shall be liable to be sold or assigned to any
person residing out of this state. |
Negroes entitled
to freedom, and
running away,
to serve out the
length of time
they have been
absent. |
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CHAP. XCI.
An Act to incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road to lead
from the Cross Roads near Richard Caton's Limekiln,
in Baltimore
County, nearly in the direction of Jones's Falls
to the City of Baltimore.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 676.
Supplements, 1805, ch. 48, ch. 105,
and 1816, ch. 115. See 1808, ch. 69, &
Nov. 1812, ch. 152. |
Passed Jan. 19, 1805. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, that
the inhabitants of Jones's Falls are not accommodated with a good
road, affording an easy transportation for their produce to the city
of Baltimore, and that a turnpike road would greatly add to the
interests of the farmers generally; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company shall be incorporated for making a turnpike road for
the accommodation of the inhabitants on Jones's Falls and the country
adjacent, to be called The Falls Turnpike Road, and the following
persons, to wit, John Taggart, William Clemm, senior, John Hosselbach,
George Grundy and Edward Johnson, are nominated and
appointed commissioners to mark and lay off the said road on or
near the stream of Jones's Falls, beginning for the same at the ford
by Messieurs Patterson and Stricker's mill, and running thence
northerly on and as near to the said Falls as may be found practicable
for a good road, passing over the Bane Hills, to the westward
of Benjamin Bowen's house, until it reaches the bend, running westerly
on or near to the land of Job Hunt, and from thence to the
cross roads by the limekiln of Richard Caton; and the said road
shall be laid off sixty feet wide, including a ditch on each side;
and
the said commissioners, in laying off the said road, shall not pass
through any orchard, garden, meadow or grain field, whilst the |
Company incorporated
—direction
of road—capital—
subscriptions. |
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