ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

yearly, shall be deemed, taken and adjudged, the killer or destroyer of such deer, and liable to the
penalty aforesaid, unless such person or persons shall make it appear who it was really killed the
game, or from whom such person thereof possessed received the same, or that the same was not
killed contrary to the prohibition of this act.

CHAP.
LXXVII.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any master, mistress or overseer, shall willingly suffer any
servant or servants, slave or slaves, under his, her or their care or management, to hunt, kill or
destroy, any deer contrary to this act, the said master, mistress or overseer, so offending, shall
forfeit the sum of five pounds, to be recovered and applied as before directed; and if any servant
or servant, slave or slaves, do or shall hunt, kill or destroy, any deer contrary to this act, and
without the privity and knowledge of their master, mistress or overseer, and thereof be convicted
before a justice of the peace, such servant or servants, slave or slaves, shall be whipped not ex-
ceeding thirty-nine lashes, at the discretion of such justice of the peace; provided always, that
nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent the owner from killing
tame deer, or deer actually confined within parks or islands.

Penalty on the
master, &c.

IV. AND Bis IT ENACTED, That an act, entitled, An act for the more effectual preservation of
the breed of wild deer in Somerset county, passed at November -session, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and five, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. LXXVIII.

An act repealed.

An ACT to change the place of holding the election in the first
election district of Baltimore county.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by a number of inhabitants of the
first election district in Baltimore county, that the place of holding the election in said dis-
trict is so inconvenient to many as to prevent their exercising the inestimable right of freemen, and
praying a law may pass changing the place of holding the election in said district to such place as
will admit the exercise of that right with greater facility than at present; and the prayer of said
petitioners appearing reasonable, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of the first election dis-
trict of Baltimore county be and they are hereby authorised and directed to hold, in future, the
elections in said district at such place as may appear to them most convenient, not exceeding two
miles, nor less than one, from the city of Baltimore,

Election, in fu-
ture, where to
be held, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the judges aforesaid shall have made choice of a fit and
proper place for holding said elections, agreeably to the directions of this act, and shall have re-
turned a certificate thereof, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of the county court, to be re-
corded, the same shall be, and continue to be, the place of holding the elections for the first dis-
trict of Baltimore county.

Place chosen to
continue, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk shall record said certificate among the records of Bal-
timore county.

CHAP. LXXIX.

To be recorded.

An additional supplement to the ad, entitled, An act to ascertain the
allowance to jurymen and witnesses of the general court, and the
several county and orphans courts in this state.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
there shall be allowed to each grand and petit juryman attending the county courts, and each
petit juryman attending the orphans courts, in the several counties within this state, the sum of two
dollars for each and every day such grand and petit juryman shall attend for the discharge of his du-
ty as such, to be allowed, assessed and levied, in the same manner as the allowance to jurymen has
heretofore been assessed and levied; provided, that nothing in this act contained shall in anywise
extend to Baltimore, Allegany, Harford, Calvert, Somerset and Frederick counties.

Allowance t«
jurymen, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all laws heretofore passed, whereby any allowance is directed to
be made to any juryman or his attendance as aforesaid, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far
as the same shall be repugnant to, or in any manner inconsistent with, the provisions contained in
this act.

Laws repealed,
&c.