1809.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
CXXV.

unless it be by habeas corpus, or by other legal writ, or where the prisoner shall be delivered to the
constable or other inferior officer to be carried to some common gaol, or shall be removed from one
place to another within the said county, or any adjoining county, in order to his discharge or trial in
due course of law, or in case of sudden fire or infection, or other necessity, or where the prisoner
shall be charged, by affidavit, with treason or felony alleged to be done in any other of the United
States of America, of the territories thereof, in which last case he or she shall, on the demand of
the executive authority of the state or territory from which he or she fied, be immediately delivered
up in pursuance of such demand.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the chancellor, or any judge or chief justice of the said court,
in the vacation time, upon view of the copy of the warrant of commitment or detainer, or cause of
commitment, or upon affidavit made that such copy was denied as aforesaid, shall refuse any writ of
habeas corpus by this act required to be granted, being moved as aforesaid, such chancellor, judge or
justice, shall be liable to the action of the party grieved.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person who shall be committed for treason or felony,
plainly expressed in the warrant of commitment, upon his or her prayer or petition in open court the
first days of the term or session, to be brought to trial, shall not be indicted sometime in the next
term or session after such commitment, the judges or justices of the said court shall, upon motion in
open court the last day of the term or session, set at liberty the prisoner upon bail, unless it shall
sufficiently appear to the said court that the witnesses of the state could not be produced the same
term or session; and if such prisoner, upon his or her prayer or petition as aforesaid, shall not be
indicted and tried the second term or session, he or she may, in the discretion of the court, be dis-
charged from his or her imprisonment; provided, that nothing; herein shall extend to discharge out
of prison any person charged with any other process, but that after he or she shall be discharged
from his or her imprisonment for such criminal offence, he or she shall be kept in custody according
to law for such other suit or cause.

CHAP. CXXVI.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to authorise and empower the Levy Court of Caroline Coun-
ty to assess and levy a sum of Money for the purpose therein men-
tioned,

WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Caroline county have, by their petition to this general as-
sembly, set forth, that John Guin, and Rachel his wife, of said county, sometime since de-
parted this life, leaving four small children, named James, Samuel, John and Richard Guin, the old-
est of which does not exceed six or seven years of age, and are left entirely destitute of the means
of subsistence, and have neither friends nor relations capable or able to support them, and praying
that a law may pass authorising the levy court of Caroline county to assess and levy annually a sum
of money for the support of John, Samuel and Richard Guin, the three youngest children of the said
John and Rachel Guin; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Ca-
roline county be and they are hereby authorised and directed to assess and levy on the assessable
property of said county the sum of forty-five dollars annually, so long as they shall think proper,
for the support and maintenance of the said John, Samuel and Richard Guin, and that the same be
levied, collected and paid, annually, to the person or persons having the care of the aforesaid John,
Samuel and Richard Guin, by the collector of said county, agreeably to the order of the levy court
aforesaid.

CHAP. CXXVII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT more effectually to secure the Collection of the Public
Revenues.

WHEREAS it appears from the statements of the treasurers of the respective shores, that very
considerable sums of money are due to this state under the several denominations of debts
therein specified, and some of said debts appear to have been long since due, and in a very hazard-
ous situation; and it being at all times not only the duty of the legislature to secure and protect the
public revenue, but also to adopt such measures as may tend more effectually to collect the outstand-
ing debts due to the state, and to bring the same as speedily and as far as possible into the treasury,
therefore,,