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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 145.
An act to make valid a deed of manumission executed by William Moffett,
late of Kent county, deceased. |
117
Dec. Ses. 1825.
Passed March
2, 1826. |
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the deed of manumission executed by William Moffett, late of
Kent county, deceased, bearing date on the thirteenth day of
September, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, and recorded
among the records of the county aforesaid, as appears by the
certificate of the clerk of said county, be, and the same is hereby
confirmed, and made valid and effectual in law, to all intents
and purposes whatsoever; and the said manumission heretofore
executed and recorded, shall have full force and effect to
liberate and set free the negroes therein mentioned, at the several
times or periods therein limited; and in all respects have the
same operation as if the same had been by the said William
Moffett, deceased, executed, acknowledged, and recorded,
agreeably to the acts of assembly in such case made and provided;
Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be
so construed as to effect the rights of any person having claims
upon the estate of the said William Moffett, deceased, or to prejudice
the rights of any purchaser of any of the said negroes under
a bona fide sale. |
Deed confirmed.
Proviso. |
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CHAPTER 146.
An act regulating Fences in Harford county. |
Passed March
2, 1826. |
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
corn-fields and all grounds kept for enclosures, shall be fenced
with a post and rail fence, or worm fence well staked and ridered,
made of good and substantial rails, at least four feet and a
half high from the ground to the top of the upper rail; and all
worm fences not staked and ridered shall be at least five feet high
from the ground to the top of the upper rail, and the first or under
rail, either in post or rail or worm fences, shall not exceed
five inches from the ground, or embankment or stone wall, as the
case may be, on which the same is or shall be built; and the
width between the rails composing the fence, shall be such as is
usual in the construction of good post and rail, or worm fence;
and all fences made of stone exclusively, and hedges of thorn close
set, shall be at least four feet and an half high from the ground
to the top thereof; and all brush fences made upon the surface of
the ground to be at least four feet six inches high, and all brush
fences made upon an embankment to be at least three feet high,
provided the embankment be eighteen inches high, and provided
that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to extend
to other than outside fences or fences between different proprietors.
And if any horses, horned cattle, sheep or hogs,
shall break into any person's enclosure, the same being of the |
Dimentions
prescribed—
liability of
trespassers. |
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