A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Circuit Court, to hear and determine on warrant
to be issued in the usual form, all cases of petty
larceny as defined by section one hundred of said
Article, committed by any slave, and all misde-
meanors not punished by confinement in the Peni-
tentiary or by some other specific punishment
prescribed by the laws of the State, and on con-
viction thereof, may sentence said slave to receive
not more than forty lashes, to be inflicted by the
Constable or other officer having him in custody,
but this section shall not extend to the city of
Baltimore.

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"One hundred ninety-eight." If any slave for
life, or for a term of years, be sentenced to death,
to confinement in the Penitentiary, or to be sold,
the court before which the conviction shall take
place, shall immediately proceed to value such
slave, as a slave for life or a term of years, as the
case may be, and enter the same on the proceed-
ings of said court, and such value shall be assessed
by the County Commissioners or Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, as the case may be, and
collected with the county or city assessments, and
paid to the owner of such slave, his, her or their
agent or attorney.

Slave for life
sentenced to
death — remu-
neration of the
owner, &c.

Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect from its
passage.

In force.

CHAPTER 107.

AN ACT to amend the forty-third section of the
twenty-ninth article of the Code of Public Gene-
ral Laws, relating to the compensation of the
Crier of the Court of Appeals, and of the Sheriff
appointed to attend said Court.

Passed Feb.
24, 1862.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the forty third section of the
twenty-ninth Article of the Code of Public Gene-
ral Laws, relating to the compensation of the
Crier of the Court of Appeals, and of the Sheriff

Repealed.