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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
clerk or register to describe the grantee of such second certificate,
in the same manner as is prescribed in the first section of this act. |
1805.
CHAP. 66. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any negro
or negroes, who
has or have been manumitted or freed as aforesaid, shall apply to
the clerk or register of the county where he, she or they was or
were manumitted or freed as aforesaid, for a certificate thereof, it
shall be the duty of such clerk or register to cause such applicant
or applicants to prove, that he or she, as the case may be, is the
identical person who was manumitted or freed as aforesaid.
See Note to section 2. |
A negro applying
for certificate,
to prove he is the
person manumitted
or freed. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any negro
or negroes, born
free, shall wish to travel out of, or leave, the county in which he,
she or they, were born, such negro or negroes shall apply to the
clerk of the county where he, she or they, shall reside, to grant
him, her or them, a certificate of their freedom, and the said clerk
shall, upon sufficient evidence of such negro or negroes a certificate
thereof, setting forth the manner in which such negro or negroes
became entitled to his, her or their freedom, and shall describe such
a registry thereof, and shall not grant any other certificate to any
such negro or negroes, unless upon such testimony of his, her or
their having lost the former certificate of his, her or their freedom,
as is required from negroes who have been manumitted or freed as
before mentioned. |
How certificates
are to be granted
where negroes are
born free. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for each and every
certificate of
freedom granted under this act, the clerk or register, as the case
may be, shall receive fifty cents, as a compensation for his trouble. |
Fees to the clerks
and registers. |
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CHAP. LXVII.
A Further Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act to incorporate
Companies
to make several Turnpike Roads through Baltimore county,
and for other purposes. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol.
89. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1806.
* 1804, ch. 51. |
WHEREAS by an act, entitled, An act to incorporate
companies
to make several turnpike roads through Baltimore county, and for
other purposes, passed at the last session of assembly, a company
has been incorporated for the purpose of making a turnpike road
from Baltimore through Westminster, in Frederick county, under
the style and name of The Baltimore and Reister's town Turnpike
Company; and as it is deemed highly proper to extend the great
and important advantages resulting from turnpikes to the citizens
of the western part of the state in general, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said company be authorised and empowered to extend the said
turnpike road from Westminster to the forms of the road where
Stern's tavern now is, thence on to Taney-town, thence on to Emmitsburgh,
and thence to the Pennsylvania line, under the same regulations
and restrictions, and entitled to the same tolls and immunities
and disadvantages, as they are authorised to take and receive
by the act to which this is a supplement, provided a majority of
the stockholders of said company shall agree to the extension of |
Company authorised
to extend
turnpike road to
the Pennsylvania
line. |
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