1807.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
CLX1V.

to an act, entitled, An act relating to negroes, and to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned;
therefore,

No negro to re-
ceive a certifi-
cate, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That no negro or negroes shall receive
a certificate of freedom, in conformity to the provisions of the law to which this is a supplement,
except from the clerk or register of the county where said deed of manumission, or will, or a copy
of the will, under which said negro or negroes claims or claim his, her or their freedom, is recorded.

CHAP. CLXV.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT to punish crimes, offences and misdemeanors, committed
on the waters of the Chesapeake bay within the territorial juris-
diction of the state of Maryland, and for other purposes.

Persons may be
indicted, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That any person or persons who shall here-
after commit any crime, offence or misdemeanor, upon the waters of the bay of Chesapeake,
and within the territorial limits of this state, and without the body of any county of the state, and
all aiders, abetters, comforters and accessories thereof and thereto, may be indicted, arraigned and
tried, in the county court of the county in which he, she or they, may be apprehended, or into
which he, she or they, may be first brought.

Prosecutions
may be re-
moved, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any prosecutions hereafter to be instituted, under and by virtue
of this law, may be removed after the indictment being found, the person or persons against whom
the said indictment shall be found, suggesting, in writing, supported by affidavit or other proper evi-
dence, that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in such court where such indictment is found,
that then it shall be lawful for the said court, in their discretion, to order and direct the record of
the proceedings in the said prosecution to be transmitted to the judges of the next adjoining county
court, before whom the same shall be heard and determined in the same manner as if such prosecu-
tion had been originally instituted therein.

CHAP. CLXVI.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT annulling the marriage of James Barnes and Mable Barnes,
of Talbot county.

Marriage de-
clared void, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the marriage of the said James Barnes
and Mable Barnes, heretofore solemnized, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, absolutelyr
and to. all intents and purposes, null and void, and the said James Barnes and Mable Barnes are
hereby declared to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii; provided always, that nothing in this act con-
tained shall be construed to illegitimate the children of the said James Barnes and Mable Barnes
born prior to the passage of this act.

CHAP. CLXVII.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

Preamble.

A Supplement to the ad, entitled. An act to incorporate a company
for erecting a bridge over Chester river, at Chester-town,

WHEREAS Richard Tilghman, 4th, Richard E. Harrison and William B. Hackett, heretofore
appointed commissioners to erect a bridge over Chester river, are dead; therefore,

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Samuel Betz, Thomas S. Burgess
and Richard Frisby, be appointed commissioners in their stead, and that in case of the death or re-
signation of any commissioner heretofore or hereby appointed, the place of the said commissioners
may be filled, by ballot, by the board of commissioners, or a majority of them.

CHAP. CLXVIII.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT to fix and establish the pay of the adjutant-general and
brigade inspectors.

Adjutant's sa-
lary, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the adjutant-general of the state of
Maryland shall have and receive, as a compensation for his services, the sum of five hundred
dollars annually, to be paid by the treasurer of the western or eastern shore, as the case may be, in,
quarter yearly payments.