1881.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 323

Baltimore shall constitute the second district, and elect two

Second.

electors, who shall be residents of said district; Baltimore

Third.

county shall form the third district, and elect one elector, a

resident of said district; and Harford county, together with

Fourth.

the whole of the Eastern Shore, shall constitute the fourth

district, and elect out of the persons residing in said district,

three electors.

Election regulated

Sec 2. And be it enacted, Except as is otherwise direct-

ed by this act, the said election shall be conducted, and the

returns thereof made in the same manner as is provided by

the act to which this is a supplement

This act void ex-

Sec. 3 And be it enacted, That if Maryland by the ap-

cept.

portionment bill now before congress should still be entitled

to her present number of eleven electors of president, and

and vice president of the United States, then this act shall

be null and void, and the electors of president and vice pre-

sident shall be chosen in the manner now prescribed by law.

Governor to issue

Sec 4. And be it enacted, That the governor be, and he

proclamation,

is hereby authorised and directed so soon as the congress

of the United States shall have fixed the apportionment of

representation, under the census last taken of the people of

the United States, to issue his proclamation setting forth the

number of electors of president and vice president of the

United States, to which the state of Maryland according to

such apportionment shall be entitled.

CHAPTER 323

Passed Ma 14,1832

An act relating to Free Negroes and Slaves

Immigration of

Section 1, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

free negroes forbid

land, That after the passage of this act, no free negro or

mulatto shall immigrate to, or settle in this state, and no free

negro or free mulatto belonging to any other stale, district

or territory shall come into this state, and therein remain

Or sojourn longer
than 10 days.

for the space of ten successive days, whether such free ne-

gro or mulatto intends settling in this state, or not, under the

Penalty $50 per

penalty of fifty dollars for each and every week such per-

week

son coming into, shall thereafter remain in this state; the one

half to the informer, and the other half to the sheriff for the

How recoverable

use of the county, to be recovered on complaint and convic-
tion before a justice of the peace of the county in which he

shall be arrested: and any free negro or mulatto refusing or

On neglect to pay.

neglecting to pay said line or fines, shall be committed to the

jail of the county, and shall be sold by the sheriff at public