1887

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP, 14.

Road to be kept
in repair

extend the toads mentioned in the act to which this is a sup
plement, any further than herein is proposed.
SEC. 9 And be it enacted, That when said bridge shall be
built, and this road so laid out, and the same returned by the
commissioners to the levy court of Caroline county, that the
same shall thereafter be kept up as other roads are kept up in
the county.

CHAPTER 15.

Passed January 18,

1828,

An additional supplement to the act entitled, An act concerning
crimes and punishments, passed December session eighteen
hundred and eighteen, chapter one hundt ed and fifty seven.

Free persons en-
ticing slaves to run
away subjected to
indictment & con-
finement in the
Penitentiary

SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That if any tree person shall entice, persuade or assist
any slave or servant, knowing him or her to be such, to run
away from his or her lawful owner or possessor, and such
slave or servant, shall actually run away, or having harboured
such run away slave or servant knowing him or her to be such,
then suth person shall be liable to indictment in the county
court of the county where such off? nee shall have been com-
mitted, or in the city court of Baltimore, if such offence shall
have been committed in the city of Baltimore, and upon con-
viction shall undergo a confinement in the Penitentiary not
exceeding six years.

Slave guilty of
like offender to re-
ceive thirty-nine

lashes

SEC, 2. And be it enacted, That if any slave shall entice,
persuade or assist any slave or servant, knowing him or her to
be such, to run away from his or her owner, master or mis-
tress, and such slave or servant shall actually run away, then
such slave so enticing, persuading or assisting, shall upon
conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county
where such offence was committed, or before any justice of the
peace of the city of Baltimore if the offence shall be committed
within the limits of said citv, shall be sentenced to receive
thirty-nine lashes for such offence.

Laws inconsistent
herewith repealed

SEC. 3, And be it enacted, That all such parts of the law,
to which this is a supplement, as are inconsistent with the
provisions herein contained, be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.

CHAPTER 16,

Passed January 23,

1828

An act to fix the compensation of Judges and clerks of elections
in and for Dorchester County,

Compensation fix-

ed

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, that Judges and clerks
of flections respectively in and for Dorchester county, shall
perform the duties required by law now in force, and shall
be allowed, and entitled to receive for each election at which
he shall attend, and for making the returns, the sum of three