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BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the fish in that part of said river between the Stock Landing
and Blade's Overgoing, during the month of March, April and
May, in each year, such person, so offending, shall forfeit and
pay for each offence the sum of sixty dollars, to be recovered by
action of debt, or bill of indictment, either in the county where the
offence is committed, or where the person so offending shall reside,
one half to the informer, or person suing for the same, the other
half to the use of the county in which such conviction shall take
place. |
1800.
CHAP. 21. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any slave shall
whip and beat
the water in said river as aforesaid, such slave shall be punished
for
every such offence, on conviction thereof before any justice of the
peace by the oath of one or more witness or witnesses, by whipping
on his bare back, in the discretion of the said justice, not exceeding
for each offence the number of ten lashes; provided always, that
the
master or mistress of said slave, or any other person, may redeem
said slave so convicted, from said punishment, by the payment of
ten dollars, one half to the informer, the other half to be paid to the
said justice for the use of the county; and provided also, that
if such
slave shall act as aforesaid by the order of his owner or employer,
he shall not be subject to whipping as aforesaid, but the owner or
employer giving such order shall be subject to the penalty of sixty
dollars, to be recovered as aforesaid. |
Slaves no offending
to be punished.
Provision. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every justice of
the peace shall,
at the levy court of his county, annually account for all sums of money
received by virtue of this act, under the penalty of twenty dollars. |
Justices to account
for money received. |
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CHAP. XXII.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, (a) An act respecting the
Public
Roads in Washington County.
Lib. JG. No. 3, fol. 388.
(a) 1799, ch. 32. See 1801, ch. 32, ch. 94.
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Passed Dec. 19.
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1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the
levy court of Washington county shall have power and authority
to appoint three discreet persons, freeholders in said county, commissioners
to examine and review that part of the main road leading
from Sharpsburgh, in Washington county, to Swearingen's
ferry, on Potomac, as laid out by the commissioners under the act
of seventeen hundred and ninety-one, as far as said road runs
through the estate of Benoni Swearingen, late of Washington county,
deceased, and the old road now used leading from Sharpsburgh
to Swearingen's ferry aforesaid, so far as it runs through said estate,
and if, in the opinion of said commissioners, the old road now
used as aforesaid should be as eligible, and doing the least injury
to the estate of said Benoni Swearingen, that then the said commissioners
shall cause to be surveyed and laid out the old road aforesaid,
and without delay execute, sign and seal, plain plots of the
same, with explicit explanations thereof, and make return of such
plots to the said court, who, on receiving such plots and explanations,
shall examine the same, and all the evidence that shall or
may be offered for or against said road as returned, and, upon consideration
of all circumstances, may reject or confirm the same as
part of the public road leading from Foxe's Gap, in the South
Mountain, to the town of Sharpsburgh, and form thence to Swearingen's |
Levy court to appoint
persons to
examine part of a
main road. |
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