GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831

ed to cause the number of the free people of color inhabit-

CHAP. 881 .

ing their respective counties to be taken, and cause to be

made, a list of the names of the said free people of color re-

siding in their respective counties; the said enumeration

shall distinguish the sexes of said free people of color, and

the aid list shall state the ages of such free people of color,

Directions given.

for effecting which the sheriffs aforesaid, shall nave power

and are hereby required to appoint one or more assistants in

their respective counties, the said list of names and the said

enumeration shall be made by an actual enquiry by such

sheriff or his assistants at every dwelling house, or by per-

sonal enquiry of the head of every family; the said listing

and enumeration shall commence on the first day of June

next, and be completed within three months thereafter, and

the said sheriffs shall make out two copies of said list and

enumeration stating the names, sexes, and ages of the free

people of color, in their respective counties, and shall de-

liver one copy to the clerk of their respective counties,

whose duty it shall be to record the same in a book by him

Books to be kept

to be kept for that purpose, and the other copy shall be by

said sheriffs transmitted to the board of managers appointed

List sent to the

under this act, and every sheriff failing to comply with the

board

duties prescribed in this section, shall forfeit two hundred

Penalty for ne-

dollars, to be recoverable in the county court of tbeir re-

glect.

spective counties by action of debt or indictment.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the compensation of

Compensation to
sheriff

every sheriff and assistant shall be at the rate of two dollars

and twenty five cents for every fifty persons by him return-

ed, except where such person resides in the city of Balti-

more, when such sheriff or assistant shall receive at the

rate of one dollar and twenty five cents for three thousand,

and at the rate of one dollar and twenty five cents for every

three hundred persons over three thousand residing in the

city of Baltimore, which said compensation shall be levied

on the assessable property within the respective counties,

and be collected in the same manner and by the said collect-

or, or collectors, as county charges are collected, and be by

them paid over to the person entitled to receive the same;

Proviso.

Provided, that the levy courts or commissioners of the re-

spective counties, and the mayor and city council of Balti-

more as the case may be, may, if they deem the compensa-

tion hereby allowed inadequate, allow such further compen-

sation as they may deem proper.

Sec. 11 . And be it enacted, That the several sheriffs of

Sheriff. to report

to the board, the

the counties of this state, shall, from time to time, make re-

names of persons

port to the said board of managers of such, of said free peo-

wiling to remove

ple of. colour in their said counties as they shall find- wil-
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