A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

and the same is hereby repealed, and the follow-
ing section substituted therefor :

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47. All Sheriffs and Constables are hereby re-
quired to arrest any Free Negro who may come
into this State, contrary to the provisions of section
forty-four, forty-five and forty-six of the Code of
Public General Laws, and all other persons are

Sheriffs and
Constables au-
thorized to ar-
rest non-resi-
dent free
negroes, &c.

authorized to arrest any such Free Negro ; and
such Sheriff, Constable or any other person who
may arrest any such Free Negro, shall be entitled
to the penalty of twenty dollars, hereby imposed
upon any Free Negro who may have violated any
of the provisions of sections forty -four, forty-five

Officers' fees.

and forty-six of this Article, to be recovered on
complaint and conviction as before stated ; and
any such Free Negro so offending shall pay the
said penalty of twenty dollars and costs, and ex-
penses incident to his or her arrest and detention,
and upon his or her failure to do so, he or she shall
be committed to Jail and sold by the Sheriff at
public sale after ten days notice, for a period of not
exceeding two years to the highest bidder, he being
a resident of this State, and should there be any
surplus of the sale of negroes sold under the pro-
visions of this act, or the one to which it is a supple-
ment, such surplus shall be paid over to the negro
at the end of the term for which he or she may
have been sold ; and the said negro as hereinbefore
provided for, shall leave this State in ten days
after the expiration of his or her term, or he or
she shall be deemed to have come into this State a
second time, and be as liable as if he or she had
so done.

Negroes of-
fending to pay
fine, and upon
failure to do so
shall be sold,
&c.