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GEORGE PLATER, Esquire, Governor.
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may
be lawful for any citizen and resident of this state, being seized
and possessed of
an estate of inheritance in his own right, or in the right of his wife,
in land
lying in the commonwealth of Virginia, the states of Delaware or Pennsylvania,
and the owner of any slave or slaves employed or worked on the said land,
to
remove and bring such slave or slaves from such land into this state, for
the purpose
only of employing or working such slave or slaves within this state for
the
use and benefit of the owner at the time of removal, or their legal representatives,
and nor for sale; provided such slave or slaves hath or have been residents
of the
commonwealth of Virginia, the states of Delaware or Pennsylvania, before
the
twenty-first of April, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three,
or is or are the descendant or descendants of any slave being residents
as
aforesaid; and provided also, that a list of such slave or slaves be delivered,
in
writing, and signed by the owner, his overseer or agent, to the clerk
of the
county into which such slave or slaves shall be first brought, within one
month
thereafter, ad the said list shall be recorded at the expence of the owner
of such
slave or slaves so brought into this state; in which list of negroes so
recorded, if
title to them be acquired by will, the testator's name, the date of the
will, and
the place where recorded, shall be inserted, and if the title to them
be derived
from marriage, the name of the married person from whom the title is derived,
shall likewise be inserted in said list, and the whole entered on record. |
1791.
CHAP.
LVII.
Citizens
holding land
in Virginia,
&c. may remove
their
slaves, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any citizen and
resident of the commonwealth of Virginia, being seized and possessed of
an estate
of inheritance in his own right, or in the right of his wife, in land lying
in this
state, and the owner of any slave or slave, residents of the commonwealth
of
Virginia before the twenty-first day of April, in the year one thousand
seven
hundred and eighty-three, or of the descendant or descendants of any slave
being
resident as aforesaid, to remove and bring such slave or slaves into this
state,
for the purpose only of employing or working such slave or slaves within
this
state for the use and benefit of the owners at the time of removal,
or their legal
representatives, and not for sale; provided, that a list of such slave
or slaves be
delivered, in writing, and signed by the owner, his overseer or agent,
to the
clerk of the county into which such slave or slaves shall be first brought,
within
one month thereafter, and the said list shall contain a certificate as
aforesaid, to
be recorded at the expence of the owner of such slave or slaves so removed
into
this state. |
Citizens of
Virginia
holding land
in this state,
may remove
their slaves,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That this power of removing slaves, as above allowed,
may be exercised as often as the owners of such slaves shall think proper,
on
complying with the directions of this act. |
As often as
they please. |
V. And be it
enacted, That if any citizen of this state hath or shall acquire
property in any slave or slaves being residents of any of the United
States before
the twenty-first day of April, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three,
or
in the descendant or descendants of such slaves being residents as aforesaid,
by
marriage, bequest, in course of distribution, or as guardian, such citizen
may
remove and bring such slave or slaves into this state, for the purpose
only of employing
or working such slave or slaves within this state, as herein before mentioned,
and not for sale; provided, that a list of such slave or slaves be
rendered
in the manner herein before directed, by a citizen of this state on his
bringing
slaves into this state as herein before allowed. |
Citizens acquiring
slaves
in any state
may remove
them, &c. |
CHAP. LVIII.
A Bill, entitled, A Supplement to the act for licensing and regulating
ordinary keepers. |
Passed December
26. |
WHEREAS there may be a necessity for granting licences
to ordinary
keepers between the sitting of the several county courts of this state,
and there is no provision for granting licences in such cases, |
Preamble. |
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