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BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XXXI.
A Supplement to the act, (a) entitled, An act to provide
for the administration
of Justice in cases of Crimes and Misdemeanors in the
City and County of Baltimore. Lib. JG. No.
3, fol. 397.
(a) 1799, ch. 58. other supplements
1804, ch. 84;1804, ch. 65; and 1808, ch.
113.
1 and 2. These sections were excepted in the continuing
act of 1802, ch. 106.
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1800.
CHAP. 31.
Passed Dec. 19. |
3. WHEREAS it is represented, that persons condemned
in other
states to labour, as a punishment for their crimes, have escaped
and come into Baltimore county, and have been taken up as vagrants,
BE IT ENACTED, That any two or more of the said justices
(b) may adjudge any person, condemned in any of the United
States to labour, as a punishment for any crime, to serve and labour
as a criminal, according to this act, for any time not exceeding
the residue of the term for which such person shall have been
condemned, and which condemnation shall appear to the said justices
by the record of conviction; but if such person shall be demanded
by the state from whence he escaped, he shall be immediately delivered
agreeably to such demand.
(b) By 1816, ch. 193, Baltimore
City Court, and the judges thereof, are vested
with the powers, &c. exercised by the court and justices mentioned
in this
act, and the act to which it is a supplement.
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Criminals may be
adjudged to labour. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any grand and petit
juror attending
the said court shall have an allowance of seventeen cents
for every days attendance, in addition to the allowance prescribed
by the act to which this is a supplement, to be assessed and collected
with the county assessment.
Continued by 1802, ch. 106, to 30th
of October 1805, &c. except the 1st and 2d
sections. See note under ch. 58.
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Jurors allowance. |
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CHAP. XXXII.
An Act to authorise and empower the Levy Court of Charles County
to assess and levy a sum of money for the purpose
of repairing
and improving the public Road leading from Port-Tobacco
through
the Zachia Swamp at the Old Bridges. Lib.
JG. No. 3, fol. 399. |
Passed Dec. 19. |
WHEREAS it is represented, to this general assembly,
by sundry
inhabitants of Charles county, that the road leading from Port-Tobacco
over the Zachia Swamp, at a place known by the name of
The Old Bridges, is frequently impassable, to the great inconvenience
of those who travel the said road, and it appears reasonable
that the same should be repaired and improved. |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Charles county be and they are hereby authorised,
empowered and directed, at their next annual meeting for the
purpose of levying their county tax, to levy and assess on the assessable
property of said county a sum of money, not exceeding
five hundred dollars, for the purpose of repairing and improving
that part of the road leading from Port-Tobacco, over the Zachia
Swamp, which runs through the said swamp at a place called the
Old Bridges. |
Levy authorised
for repairing road. |
3. BE IT ENACTED, That William Barton Smoot,
of
Charles, Ralph Boarman, Samuel Chapman, William Morris and
Raphael Jameson, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and that any two or more of them shall have full power to |
Commissioners appointed. |
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