1835.

LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 3£9.

CHAP. 329.

Passed Mar. 30,1836

A further supplement to an act, entitled, an act, relat-

ing to Free Negroes and Slaves.

Preamble

WHEREAS, There are many citizens in this State

who hold land both in this State and the State of Vir-

ginia and vice versa, who find much inconvenience

from existing laws, in removing their slave labour

from one State to the other, as necessity and occasion

may require, and for the purpose of facilitating this

intercourse, and at the same time to repress within

proper limits the increase of the slave population in

the State, — Therefore;

Remove slaves into this State

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That it shall he lawful for any citizen of

this State who may hold lands in Virginia and also in

this State, and any citizen of Virginia who may hold

lands in this State, to remove his slaves from Virginia

into this State, on his compliance with the requisi-

tions and provisions of the fourth section of the act of

Assembly, passed at December Session, eighteen hun-

dred and thirty-one, and also of the act of eighteen

hundred and thirty-three, chapter eighty-seven, enti-

tled, a further supplement to an act, entitled an act,

relating to free negroes and slaves, so far as the same

To file list of ne-groes

requires him to file on oath a list of the negroes so re-

moved, in the clerks office of the county into which

they may he removed, and on payment of the tax for

the' same for the benefit of the Colonization Society as

is therein prescribed.

May he employed in either State

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any slave or slaves

so removed under this act, or the act to which this is

a further supplement, from Virginia into this State, or

any slave or slaves owned in the State of Maryland,

may hereafter be employed in either State, at the option

of the owner or owners, and removed from one. State

to the other at his pleasure, without limitation or re-

Proviso

striction; Provided however, that this act shall not be

construed to affect in any wise, owners of slaves, to

whom privileges are extended by the fourth section of

the act, passed at December Session, eighteen hundred

and thirty -one, chapter three hundred and twenty-three