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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
JOS. KENT, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
paid; the memorialist further states, that he declined paying
those costs and prison fees, for two reasons; first, because they
exceeded in amount by his estimation, the value of the residue
of her time to serve; and secondly, because the turpitude
of her crime rendered him indifferent about repossessing himself
of her. He further states, that on the nineteeth day of
July last, the levy court of Caroline county, levied on the assessable
property of said county, the costs of the prosecution
against her, amounting to fifty six dollars and sixty nine cents
and two thirds of a cent, and also her prison fees up to said
date, amounting to twenty-five dollars and forty cents, and
amounting in the whole to the sum of eighty two dollars nine
and two thirds cents; but that she is now held as a prisoner to
the county, until the county shall be indemnified; and still continues
in prison, her jail fees accumulating and mulcting the
county with expense. The memorialist further states, that it
is utterly impossible she can ever indemnify the county for the
costs paid by it, he therefore in her behalf, respectfully asks for
some legislative interference, and the prayer of the memorialist
appearing reasonable, Therefore, |
Release—
condition. |
Sec. 1: Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That upon the payment of the fine of one dollar, which was
imposed upon negro Caroline, by Caroline county court at
March term last, the sheriff of Caroline county, be, and he is
hereby directed to release the said negro Caroline from prison. |
Levy to compensate
sheriff. |
2. And be it enacted, That it shall
and may be lawful for the
levy court of Caroline county, and they are hereby directed and
required to levy on the assessable property of said county, all
such legal prison fees as have accrued since the nineteenth day
of July last; and all such legal prison fees as shall accrue and
become due to the sheriff of Caroline county, until the day of
her discharge under the provisions of this act, for the safe keeping
in jail and subsistence of the said negro Caroline, to be
collected by the collector of the county taxes of said county,
and paid to the sheriff of said county or his order. |
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Passed Jan.
28, 1826. |
CHAPTER 40.
An act for the relief of Nancy Vissage, wife of James Vissage, of Harford
county. |
Liability and
claim annulled. |
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That the interest, authority, power and control of James Vissage,
in, over and to the person and property of Nancy Vissage,
his wife, shall not be liable for any debts hereafter contracted
by the said Nancy Vissage, and the said Nancy Vissage |
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