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proceed to value such, slave, as a slave for life or a term of years,
as the case may be, and enter the same on the proceedings of said
court, and such value shall be assessed by the County Commis-
sioners or Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case may
be, and collected with the county or city assessments, and paid
to the owner of such slave, his, her or their agent or attorney.

TREASON.

The Act of 1862, ch 235, repeals section 202, and enacts the following as a substitute:

10. If any person shall levy war against this State, or shall
adhere to the enemies thereof, whether foreign or domestic, giv-
ing them aid or comfort, within this State, or elsewhere, and
shall be thereof convicted, on confession in open court or on the
testimony of two witnesses, -both of them to the same overt act,
he shall suffer death, or be sentenced to confinement in the pen-
itentiary, for not less than six nor more than twenty years, at
the discretion of the court.

Sub-Sec. 2. If any person shall provide or procure money,
goods or other property or effects (other than munitions of war)
to be used in the levying of war against this State, or in giving
aid or comfort to the enemies of this State, within this State or
elsewhere, and be convicted thereof, he shall be sentenced to im-
prisonment in the common jail of the county or city wherever
he may be convicted for a term not exceeding six months, or to
a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the
court; and if the property or effects, so provided or procured,
consist in part or in the whole of munitions of war, the person so
providing or procuring such munitions of war shall, on convic-
tion thereof, be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for
a term not less than six months or more than two years, or to a.
fine not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dol-
lars, at the discretion of the court; and in any and every case
the money, goods, property or effects, so provided or procured,
shall be forfeited to the use of the State.

Sub-Sec. 3. And whereas, experience has shown that evil-
minded persons are disposed to commit the offences specified in