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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Reservation.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted,
That the Legislature
reserves to itself the right to alter or amend this act of
incorporation whenever the public interest may require
it.
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Passed May
9, 1853.
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CHAPTER 175.
AN ACT to regulate the period of confinement of persons
convicted in removed cases of offences punishable
by confinement in Jail, and with relation to
the fine and costs in such cases.
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Persons convicted,
to be
confined in
jail of county
from which
trial was removed.
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SECTION 1. Be
it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That whenever any person punishable
by five or imprisonment in the jails of this State, is convicted
of any offence in any court to which a removal
of his or her trial may have been prayed, and taken
place, the said person so convicted, shall be sentenced
to confinement in the Jail of the county, or of the city
of Baltimore from which the said removal may have
taken place, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff of
the county in which the said conviction may be had to
place the person so convicted and sentenced in the custody
of the sheriff of the county, or city in which the
proceeding against the said person so removed, may
have originated, together with a certified copy of the
docket entries in the said case.
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Fine and costs.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That no security for fine
and costs shall be given in any case which shall be removed
from the criminal court of Baltimore city to the
Circuit court of an adjoining county, but the confinement
of parties sentenced by any court to the payment
of any fine and costs shall be subject to the same regulations
and provisions which apply to persons sentenced
to the payment of any fine and costs in the city of Baltimore.
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In force.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from its passage.
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