1834.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 162

up within the limits of this State, or slaves running away
from this State and taken without the limits thereof Provid-
ed, that nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to
the apprehending of any servants or slaves, taken up within
the limits of the District of Columbia

CHAPTER 162

Passed Mar 7 1835

A further supplement to an act, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty one, chapter one hundred and
thirty eight, for the regulation and improvement of the
Village of Dent on, in Caroline County, and for other
purposes.

Preamble

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
by the petition of sundry citizens of the village of Denton,
and its vicinity, that they labor under many disadvantages,
for the want of a law to authorise the Bailiff of said village,
to transact business as constable in any part of said county,
Therefore

Constables powers

to Bailiff

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall
be lawful for the bailiff in the village of Denton, when he
shall hereafter be legally appointed as such by the commis-
sioners of said village at their next annual meeting, or as
soon thereafter as it is convenient, and on said appointment
being made, and the said bailiff complying with the provi-
sions of the act to which this is a further supplement, ex-
cept the penalty of the bond, which bond shall hereafter be
given subject to the same penalties and regulations as other
constables of said county, then and thereafter he shall be au-
thorised to transact any business that shall thereafter be put
into his hands, as a constable, within or without the limits
of said village of Denton, as fully as other constables now
have in said county

Bond liable

Sec 2 And be it enacted, That the bond hereafter to be
given by said bailiff, shall be equally as binding for the
faithful performance of all business that he may transact, as
constable in or without the limits of said village, as fully as
if he the said bailiff had been regularly appointed as a con-
stable by the levy court of said county, any law to the con-
trary notwithstanding.