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CHAP.
V. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
from whom such person, thereof possessed, received the same, or that
the same
was not killed contrary to the prohibition of this act. |
Penalty on
servants, &c.
hunting deer,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That if any master, mistress or overseer, shall willingly
suffer any servant or servants, slave or slaves, under his, her or their
care and
management, to hunt, kill or destroy, any deer contrary to this act, the
said
master, mistress or overseer, so offending, shall forfeit the sum of
five pounds, to
be recovered and applied as before directed; and if any servant or servants,
slave
or slaves, do or shall hunt, kill or destroy, any deer contrary to this
act, and
without the privity and knowledge of their master, mistress or overseer,
and
thereof be convicted before a justice of the peace, such servant or servants,
slave
or slaves, shall be whipped not exceeding thirty-nine lashes, at the discretion
of
such justice of the peace. |
| Proviso. |
IV. Provided
always, That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be
construed to extend, to prevent the owner from killing tame deer, or deer
actually
confined within parks or islands. |
| Proviso. |
V. Provided
also, That nothing in this act shall extend, or be
construed to extend, to Washington, Baltimore, and Anne-Arundel counties. |
| An act repealed. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That an act, entitled, An act for the more effectual
preservation of the breed of wild deer, passed at November session, seventeen
hundred
and eighty-five, be and is hereby repealed. |
Passed December
19. |
CHAP. VI.
An ACT to ratify certain articles in addition to, and amendment
of, the constitution of the United States of America,
proposed
by congress to the legislatures of the several states. |
Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is provided by the fifth article of the
constitution of
the United States of America, that congress, whenever two thirds
of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to
the said constitution, or on the application of the legislatures of two
thirds of
the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which
in
either case shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the said
constitution,
when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states,
or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other modes
of ratification
may be proposed by the congress: And whereas, at a session of the
congress of the said United States begun and held at the city of New-York
on
Wednesday the fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-nine, it was resolved by the senate and house
of representatives
of the said United States in congress assembled, two thirds of both
houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures
of
the several states as amendments to the constitution of the United States,
all or
any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said legislatures,
to
be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the said constitution,
viz.
ARTICLE THE FIRST. After the first enumeration
required by the first
article of the constitution, there shall be one representative for every
thirty thousand,
until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion
shall be so regulated by congress, that there shall be not less than one
hundred
representatives, nor less than one representative for every forty thousand
persons,
until the number of representatives shall amount to two hundred; after
which
the proportion shall be so regulated by congress, that there shall not
be less than
two hundred representatives, nor more than one representative for every
fifty
thousand persons.
ARTICLE THE SECOND. No law varying the compensation
for the services
of the senators and representatives shall take effect, until an election
of representatives
shall have intervened.
ARTICLE THE THIRD. Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the |
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