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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
gaol delivery for Baltimore county (a), during its sitting, and
at all
other times the chief justice of the said court, be and they are hereby
authorised and empowered, upon application, to issue their writ
of habeas corpus, and cause to be brought before them or him, any
person or persons who are or shall be in confinement within their
jurisdiction, and to inquire into the cause of such confinement, and
either discharge, admit to bail or commit, such person or persons
as the case may require, in the same manner as is now practised
by any other court or judge in this state.
(a) See note under 1804, ch. 65, s. 1. |
1808.
CHAP. 113.
before them any
person who may
be in confinement,
and inquire into
the cause, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said court
may inflict the punishment
now annexed to the crime of manslaughter on any slave
convict thereof before them, or they may, in their discretion, order
such slave to be whipped on his bare back with not exceeding thirty-nine
stripes, or may sentence him, if a male slave, to serve and
labour on the roads, or if a female, to serve and labour at the work
house as other convicts are now sentenced.
See November 1809, ch. 138, s. 9, and 1818, ch. 197. |
May inflict punishment
annexed to
crime of manslaughter
on any
slave convict
thereof before
them, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no witness who
may attend the
said court, shall be entitled, to receive for his attendance more than
the sum of fifty cents for each day he shall attend the said court
under recognizance or summons, if such person shall reside in the
city or precincts of Baltimore.
See 1818, ch. 141. |
Witnesses entitled
to 50 cents per day. |
4. AND, whereas it frequently happens that
persons residing out of
the state, at the request of the court, voluntarily attend as witnesses
to support the prosecution, and there is no mode pointed out by
which they can be indemnified in their expenses, BE IT ENACTED,
That the court may direct the sheriff of the county to pay to any
witness thus circumstanced, such sum of money as may be considered
a reasonable compensation for his trouble and expense in
attending the said court, and may reimburse the said sheriff by
levying the same on the county, as they do the other expenses of
the said court. |
Court may direct
payment to witnesses
residing out
of the state. |
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CHAP. CXIV.
An Act to straighten and lay out a Road in Baltimore and Harford
Counties. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 111. |
Passed Dec. 25. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Dixon Stansbury, William R. Gillis and Thomas Ayres, be and
they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and open a
road, at the expense of the petitioners, not exceeding thirty feet
in width, to commence at Aquilla Galloway's land, in Baltimore
county, then to the Eastern York road, at or near the place where an
old road now intersects it, about half a mile above the Black Horse
tavern, in Harford county, and the road so opened, at the expense
of the petitioners as aforesaid, and the valuation herein after directed
to be made shall be paid, or secured to be paid, to the individuals
concerned, shall be recorded among the records of Baltimore
and Harford counties, and thereafter deemed and taken to be a public
road for ever, and shall be kept in repair in the same manner
as other public roads in said counties. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
and open a road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid commissioners,
or
any two of them, shall ascertain and value what damages may be
sustained by the person or persons through whose land the said road |
Damages to be ascertained. |
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