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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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1830.
CHAP. 72.
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holders shall in nowise be answerable or liable therefor,
in their individual capacities or private estates'; and the
service of any judicial process, by any authorised officer,
upon the president and directors, shall be a good service
upon the corporation.
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Teacher to be
provided.
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Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the said company to provide a competent teacher to instruct
the children employed in their service in reading, writing
and arithmetic.
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Right of Le-
giilature to tax
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Sec 11. And be it enacted, That nothing contained in
this act shall be construed to restrict the right of the le-
gislature, to impose from time to time, and at all times
hereafter, such reasonable tax upon the property, real, per-
sonal and mixed, in which the capital stock of the said
company hereby incorporated shall be invested, in com-
mon with similar property of any other corporation or in-
dividual of this state.
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Duration.
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Sec. 12. And be it enacted. That this act shall conti-
nue and he in force until the first day of January in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty, and until the end of the.
next session of the general assembly that shall happen
thereafter.
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CHAPTER 72.
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Passed Feb. 7.
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An Act for the benefit of Milo Mason, of the Army of
the United States.
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Authorised to
bring a slave
into state.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Milo Mason, an officer of the army of the United
States, now stationed at Fort Washington, be and he is
hereby authorised and empowered, to remove and bring
into this state from the state of Virginia, a female negro
slave, named Frances Humphrey, aged about fourteen
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Proviso
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years, and to retain the said negro as a slave, any law of
this state to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, ne-
vertheless, that nothing herein contained shall be construed
to authorise the sale of said negro slave in this state other-
wise than in a course of distribution or by operation of
law.
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