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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
discretion of the said justice, not exceeding for each offence, the
number of thirty-nine lashes; Provided always, that the master or
mistress of said slave, or any other person, may release said slave,
so convicted, on payment of thirty dollars, one half to the informer,
and the other half to be paid to the justice, and by him applied
as hereafter directed; And provided further, that if such slave
shall not be subject to whipping as aforesaid, but the owner or
employer giving him the order shall be subject to the penalty of
twenty dollars. |
1808.
CHAP. 78.
Provisos. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
any person or persons whatsoever, to destroy or remove any seine
or seines staked or fixed across said river to obstruct the passage
of fish as aforesaid. |
Seines so staked
may be destroyed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person shall
be sued or
impleaded for destroying any such seine or seines fixed across said
river contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, it shall
and may be lawful for such person or persons to plead the general
issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence, and if
upon trial the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall be nonsuited, or shall discontinue
his or their suits, then and in such case the defendant or
defendants shall recover costs. |
General issue
pleadable. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That ever justice of
the peace shall,
at the levy court of his county, account for all sums of money recovered
by virtue of this act, under the penalty of one hundred
dollars. |
Justices of the
peace to account
for monies recovered
under this
act. |
6. This act to continue until the tenth day
of October, eighteen
hundred and ten, and until the end of the next session of assembly
that shall happen thereafter.
Further continued by 1810, ch. 147,
and other annual continuing acts. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. LXXIX.
An Act to incorporate the President and Directors of the Baltimore
Water Company. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 71. |
Passed Dec. 24. |
WHEREAS William Cooke, John McKim, James A. Buchanan,
John Donnell, Solomon Etting, James Mosher, Jonathan Ellicott,
John Hollins, and other citizens of this state, have formed themselves
into a company, and raised a large sum of money, for the
purpose of introducing a copious supply of wholesome water into
the city of Baltimore, which they have nearly completed, to the
great accommodation and benefit of the inhabitants of said city; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said William Cooke, John McKim, James A. Buchanan,
John Donnell, Solomon Etting, James Mosher, Jonathan Ellicott
and John Hollins, and such other persons as have subscribed and
joined, or shall hereafter subscribe and join, the said company, on
the same terms with the original subscribers, be and they are hereby
incorporated and made a body politic, for the purpose herein
after declared; and that the said body politic shall be known and
distinguished by the appellation of The President and Directors of
the Baltimore Water Company, and shall have full and ample
power and authority to do, perform and execute, all and every
matter and thing which any similar corporation may or rightfully
can do, and shall have perpetual succession, and to that end, and
for perpetuating the said incorporated body, the individuals composing |
Persons incorporated. |
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