1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 326

any pamphlet, newspaper, hand-bill or other paper,

printed or written, of any inflammatory character, hay-

ing a tendency to create discontent among, and stir up

to insurrection, the people of color of this State, and

that every person that shall be duly convicted of this

Felony

offence, shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be sen-

Penalty from 10 to 20 years confinue-

tenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary of

ment

this State, for a period of time, not less than ten, nor

more than twenty years from the time of sentence pro-

nounced on such offender.

Unlawful to make

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That hereafter, it shall

any suck

not be lawful for any citizen of this State, knowingly

to make, print or engrave, or aid in the making, prin-

ting or engraving, within this State, any pictorial

representation, or to write or print, or to aid in the

writing or printing any pamphlet, newspaper, hand-

bill or other paper of an inflammatory character, and

having a tendency to excite discontent, or stir up in-

surrection amongst the people of color of this State,

or of either of the other States or Territories of the

United States, or knowingly to carry or send, or to

aid in the carrying or sending the same for circulation

amongst the inhabitants of either of the other States

or Territories of the United States, and any person so

Felony

offending shall be guilty of a felony, and shall on con-

Penalty from 10 to

viction be sentenced to confinement in the Penitentiary

20 years confine, ment

of this State, for a period not less than ten nor more

than twenty years, from the time of sentence pro-

nounced on such person.

CHAPTER 326.

Passed April 1,1836

An act to Incorporate the Allegany Mining Company

Preamble

WHEREAS, it is represented to this Assembly that J.

L. Skinner and his associates, have purchased several

farms or tracts of land lying together about the head of

Jenning's run, near Frostburg, in Allegany county,

containing extensive and valuable beds or mines of

coal and iron ore, and that the interests of the State of

Maryland, and of the trade and business of the Chesa-