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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
this state, be punished by hanging by the neck, such free negro,
mulatto, or colored person, may in the discretion of the court be
sentenced to receive on his, or her, bare back, any number of
lashes, not exceeding forty; or the court may sentence such free
negro, mulatto, or colored person, to be banished from the state,
by transportation, and sale into some foreign country, or some
one of the United States, or territories thereof, other than the district
of Columbia, for the term of time which the said free negro,
mulatto, or colored person, would have been liable to be
sentenced to confinement and labor in the Penitentiary according
to the existing laws of this state; and from the avails of such sale,
the amount of restitution which may have been awarded to any
injured individual by the judgment of the said court, shall be
first paid and satisfied; and the balance, if any, shall be delivered
by the proper officer, to the levy court of the county, for the
uses of the county, wherein the crime originated, or was perpetrated. |
69
Dec. Ses. 1825.
whipped or
sold out of
the state—
proceeds applied. |
4. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the Sheriff
of the county, in which the criminal, or criminals, shall have
been convicted, or in which the crime, or crimes, was or were
perpetrated, to execute the sentence of the court, and pay over,
to the levy court of the county, as hereinbefore provided without
delay the balance of the avails of all such sale, or sales,
made in virtue of this act, under the judgment, or order of the
said court, and the said sheriff, shall be held responsible, for the
due discharge of that duty, under the penalty of his public bond. |
Sheriff to execute
sentence. |
5. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the clerk of
the said court, to make out and deliver to each, and every, of
the criminals convicted, and sentenced to transportation and
sale, under the authority of this act, a transcript, on parchment
under seal, of the record and judgment, of the said court, in
each and every case, of such conviction and judgment. |
Clerk to give
certificate. |
6. And be it enacted, That all such
parts of the act, to which
this is a further and an additional supplement, which are repugnant
to or inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and
the same are hereby repealed. |
Acts inconsistent
herewith
repealed. |
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CHAPTER 94.
A supplement to an act to ascertain the allowance of Jurors in the several
counties in this state. |
Passed Feb.
28, 1826. |
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
each and every grand and petit juror who shall serve as such
in the Baltimore county court, summoned from the county without
the limits of the city of Baltimore, shall be allowed the sum
now allowed them by the act of eighteen hundred and eighteen,
chapter thirty one, for each and every day he shall attend in the
said court as a juror, and no more, to be paid out of any money
in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated, on presenting |
Regulations
prescribed. |
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