1851.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 325.

the court: Provided also, That such negro or mulatto so ob-

taining a license as above, shall enter into recognizance with

Further proviso

such sureties and in such condition and penally as the said

courts or either of them shall approve.

Negroes convicted

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That if any free negro or

of crimes not capi-
tal be punnish-

mulatto shall be convicted of any crime committed after the

ed according to

existing laws, or

passage of this act, which may not, under the laws of this

banished the State.

state, be punished by hanging by the neck, such iree negro

or mulatto may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced

to the penalties and punishments now provided by law, or

be banished from this state by transportation into some

foreign country.

CHAPTER 224.

Passed Mar. 14, 1832

A supplement to an act to make public an old road leading

from Coalsville, in Montgomery county, to intersect the

public road from Vansville, in Prince George's county, at

or near the Paint Chapel in said county, passed at Decem-

ber session eighteen hundred und twenty-three, chapter one

hundred and eighty-four.

Preamble

WHEREAS, in consequence of the death, removal from

the county, and refusal to act, of several of the commis-

sioners named in the act, to which this is a supplement, the

road mentioned in said act cannot be improved as is requir-

ed by the said act — Therefore,

Commissioners

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-

named.

ryland, That Washington Duvall, Francis Valdenar and Ed-

ward Dawes, be and they are hereby appointed commis-

sioners, who, together with such of the commissioners,

named in the act, to which this is a supplement, at are will-

ing to act, are hereby authorised and required to carry into

effect and operation the provisions of the original law, to

which this is a supplement.

CHAPTER 325.

Passed Mar.14 1832

An act for the benefit of Ann Kennard, of Queen Anne's

county.

Preamble

WHEREAS, it appears to this General Assembly, that Ann

Kennard, of Queen Anne's county, was intermarried with

one William Kennard,of said county, who has been found