CHAP.
XXXVIII.

entitled, An act for the more effectual punishment of negroes and other slaves
and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders, and a supplementary
act to an act, entitled, An act to prevent the tumultuous meetings, and
other irregularities, of negroes and other slaves, and directing the manner of trying
slaves, made at a session of assembly begun and held at the city of Annapolis
the fifteenth day of May, seventeen hundred and fifty-one, be and is hereby continued,
and shall remain and be in full force for and during the term of seven
years, and to the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.
That another act of assembly, entitled, An act to make the testimony of
convicted persons legal against convicted persons, made at a session of assembly
begun and held at the city of Annapolis the fifteenth day of May, seventeen
hundred and fifty-one, be and is hereby continued, and shall remain and be in
full force for and during the term of seven years, and to the end of the next
session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.  That another act of assembly,
entitled, An act relating to guardians and orphans, made at a session of assembly
begun and held at the city of Annapolis the twenty-eight day of March, seventeen
hundred and fifty-eight, be and is hereby continued, and shall remain and
be in full force for and during the term of seven years, and to the end of the
next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.  That another act of assembly,
entitled, An act to prevent certain evils and inconveniencies attending the
sale of strong liquors, and running horse-race, near the yearly meetings of the
people called Quakers, and to prevent the tumultuous concourse of negroes and
other slaves during the said meetings, made at a session of assembly begun and
held at the city of Annapolis the sixteenth day of Mary, seventeen hundred and
forty-seven, be and is hereby continued, and shall remain and be in full force for
and during the term of seven years, and to the end of the next session of assembly
which shall happen thereafter.  That another act of assembly, entitled, An
act to amend and explain an act, entitled, An act to prevent certain evils and
inconveniencies attending the sale of strong liquors, and running horse-races, near
the meeting of the people called Quakers, and to prevent the tumultuous concourse
of negroes and other slaves during the said meetings, made at a session of
assembly  begun and held at the city of Annapolis the third day of June, seventeen
hundred and fifty-two, be and is hereby continued, and shall remain and be
in full force for and during the term of seven years, and to the end of the next
session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.  That another act of assembly,
entitled, An act to exempt persons appearing at musters from arrests in civil cases,
mad at a session of assembly begun and held at the city of Annapolis the tenth
day of May, seventeen hundred and forty-eight, be and is hereby continued, and
shall remain and be in full force for and during the term of seven years, and to
the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.  That
another act of assembly, entitled, An act for the punishment of horse-stealers
and other offenders, made at a session of assembly begun and held at the city of
Annapolis on the first day of May, seventeen hundred and forty-four, be and is
hereby continued, and shall remain and be in full force for and during the term
of seven years, and to the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen
thereafter.  That another act of assembly, entitled, An additional supplementary
act to the act, entitled, An act relating to servants and slaves, made at a session
of assembly begun and held at the city of Annapolis the tenth day of May, seventeen
hundred and forty-eight, be and is hereby continued, and shall remain
and be in full force for and during the term of seven years, and to the end of the
next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.  That anther act of assembly,
entitled, An act to prevent the exportation of flour, staves and shingles,
not merchantable, from the town of Baltimore, in Baltimore county, and to
regulate the weight of hay, and measure of grain, salt, flaxseed and firewood,
within the said town, and to prevent the exportation of flour not merchantable
from Fell's Point, in the said county, made at a session of assembly begun and
held at the city of Annapolis the second day of October, seventeen hundred and
seventy-one, be and is hereby continued, and shall remain and be in full force
for and during the term of seven years, and to the end of the next session of assembly
which shall happen thereafter.  That another act of assembly, entitled,
An act for the better regulating attachments, made at a session of assembly begun