THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

shall have resided or remained in the city or county of

CHAP. 385

Baltimore, for sixty successive days immediately pre-

ceiling his application, to apply for the benefit of the In-

solvent laws, to the commissioners of Insolvent Deb-

tors for the city and county of Baltimore, and under

On conditions

such application to be discharged, to every effect as if

such applicant had resided two years in this State, im-

mediately preceding his application, subject however,

except as to length of residence, to all the conditions

and regulations applicable to other cases of petitions

to such commissioners for the benefit of the insolvent

laws: and provided, however, that the said commission-

And provided

ers be satisfied that the applicant did not come into

this State for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of

the said Insolvent laws; and that it shall not appear to

the commissioners, that the applicant has been guilty

of fraudulent pretences, or representatives in contract-

ing any of the debts for which he shall be liable at the

time of his application; in which case be shall not on

his said application, be entitled either to a personal or

final discharge.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act

Samuel Thompson

contained shall be so construed as to extend to Samuel

excepted

Thompson, of the District of Columbia, now confined

in the jail of Baltimore county.

CHAPTER 385.

An act for the benefit of Hugh Brown.

Passed May, 1836

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of

Authprised to sell

Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful, from and

Ned Ford beyond the State

after the passage of this act, for Cecil county court to

authorise Hugh Brown of said county, the master and

owner of a slave for a term of years, named Ned,

otherwise called Edward Foard, to sell the unexpired

time of said slave to any person who will transport

such slave beyond the limits of this State; Provided,

Bond required

that the said Hugh Brown, in all respects, conforms

to the provisions of the act of Assembly of this State,

passed at December session, eighteen hundred and