THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1835.

SEC. 2. And be if enacted, That the several courts

of this state having jurisdiction over crimes, shall

CHAP. 201.

Jurisdiction of

within their respective jurisdiction have cognizance

such crimes

of the crimes hereinbefore declared and enacted as in

other cases.

SEC. 3, And be it enacted, That the judges cf the

Free Negroes pre-viously senten-

several courts in the state having criminal jurisdiction,

ced to the Peni-tentiary and

shall upon the conviction of any free negro or mulatto,

found guilty of second offence.

inquire into the fact whether such negro or mulatto

&c. may be sold out of the State

has been previously sentenced to undergo confinement

jn the penitentiary, and if any court shall find to their

satisfaction that any such convict has been previously

sentenced at any former term of any court or courts

of this state, to confinement therein, that then it shall

be lawful for such court to order such negro or mulatto

to be sold, at the discretion of the court, for a term of

years, without the limits of the state, and the proceeds

Proceeds applied

thereof, after defraying the expenses of prosecution,

shall be paid into the public treasury.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That one moiety of all

Fines had forfeit-ures in Baltimore

fines and forfeitures adjudged by or accruing in Balti-

city court— hoe

disposed of

more city court, when and as hereafter secured by the

Sheriff of Baltimore county, shall be paid to the May-

or and City Council of Baltimore, and that out of such

funds the judges of said Court may order and direct to

be paid to the Attorney General, or to any or either of

his deputies, such additional fees, not exceeding thirty

dollars in any one case, in cases of extraordinary du-

ration or trouble, as they shall deem just and reason-

able, and provided further, that this section shall not

CHAPTER 201.

An act to establish Magistrates' Courts in the several

Passed Mar.18,1836

Counties of this State, and to prescribe their juris-

diction.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Appointment of three justices in

Maryland, That from and after the first day of May

each ejection dis-trict

next, the number of Justices of the Peace in every