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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
so offending, before some magistrate of the county, who shall
thereupon commit such person to the common gaol, unless he or she
shall enter into a recognizance, with such security as said justice
shall require, for his or her good behaviour, and also to appear
before the next county court, to answer for such offence in such
manner as is prescribed by law for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors
within this state, and if such person shall be found guilty
of violating any of the provisions of this act, he shall be fined, or
imprisoned, for such offence, at the discretion of the court; and if
such constable shall find at any such meeting as aforesaid, any
slave besides those belonging to the owner of such place, not having
permission in writing from his owner or overseer, it shall be
lawful for the constable, and he is hereby authorised and required,
to whip every such slave, at his discretion, not exceeding thirty-nine
lashes. |
1806.
CHAP. 81. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any constable
shall be entitled
to receive the allowance granted by the fourth section of the
act *, entitled, An act to prevent the tumultuous meetings and
other irregularities of negroes and other slaves, he shall produce a
certificate from at least two respectable citizens of his hundred, of
his industry and fidelity in the discharge of his duty under this act
and the act above recited. |
Allowance to constable,
how to be
paid.
* 1723, ch. 18. |
5. AND, for a further encouragement to take
up runaways, BE
IT ENACTED, That in lieu of two hundred pounds of tobacco, allowed
by the act †, entitled, An act relating to servants and slaves,
any person seizing and taking up such runaways, shall have and
receive six dollars. |
Allowance for
taking up runaways.
† 1715, ch. 49. |
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CHAP. LXXXII.
An act authorising a Lottery in the City of Baltimore to raise a
sum
of money for the purposes therein mentioned. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol.
277. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
WHEREAS a petition has been presented to this general
assembly
from sundry inhabitants of the city of Baltimore, praying that a
law may pass to enable them to raise, by way of lottery, the sum of
fifteen thousand dollars, for the use of the Trinity Church, of the
episcopal order and denomination, now building in said city, and
to enable them to purchase a burying ground, and to defray other
incidental expenses, which they apprehend their funds may be insufficient
to discharge; and the prayer of the said petition appearing
reasonable; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Slater, Edward Irealnd, Stephen Calder, William Price,
Joseph Allender, William McMechen and Alexander McKim, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose of
framing a scheme, to raise, by lottery, the sum of fifteen thousand
dollars, to be applied by the said commissioners in the completion
of the Trinity church, of the episcopal order and denomination,
now building in that city by voluntary contributions, and for the
purchase of a burial-ground, and such other general purposes as
may appear to the said commissioners necessary and useful in the
fulfilment of the trust hereby reposed in them. |
Commissioners
appointed to
frame a scheme of
a lottery, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
are hereby
authorised to appoint managers for conducting and drawing the
said lottery, and that previous to their acting as such they shall |
Who may appoint
managers. |
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