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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be proposed by the Congress; And whereas, the
thirty-sixth Congress of the United States, at
the second session thereof, begun and held at
the city of Washington on Monday the third day
of December, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty, it was resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of Ame-
rica, in Congress assembled, (two-thirds, of both
Houses concuring,) that the following article be
proposed to the Legislatures of the several States,
as an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, which, when ratified by three-
fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid to all
intents and purposes as part of the said Consti;
tution, to-wit:

Amendment
to the Federal
Constitution.

Article thirteen. No amendment shall be made to
the Constitution which will authorize or give to
Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within
any State, with the domestic institutions thereof,
including that of persons held to labor or service
by the laws of said State.

Ratification.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the aforesaid amendment be and the
same is hereby confirmed and ratified.

CHAPTER 22.

Passed Jan.
15, 1862.

AN ACT for the more certain and speedy appre-
hension of runaway slaves, who may run from
Worcester county.

Reward for
arrest of run-
away slaves,
taken without
the bounds of
the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That from and after the passage of
this act, in all cases where a runaway slave or
slaves from Worcester county, whether held as a
slave or slaves for life or for a term of years, shall be
apprehended in the limits of an adjoining State, ten
miles from his, her or their home, or place of re-
sidence, or where he, she or they may have been
hired, without a permission, in writing, from his,
her or their owner, overseer or employer; the sum
allowed to the captors, or those returning the