1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 376

Owner may recover

the value.

transported on said rail roads, or in said steamboats,
tow-boats, or other vessel, the master or mistress, or oth-
rer owner or owners thereof, shall and may recover the
value of such slave or slaves from the president, di-
rectors and company of said rail road, or the owners

sel, as the case may be, by action of debt in his, her or
their name or names, in any of the courts of law in this
State.

Exception.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the

to any slave travelling in company with his, or their
master or mistress, his, her or their agent, or as the
servant or attendant of any white person or persons,
bonafide employed for that purpose.

CHAPTER 376.

Passed April 5,
1839.

An act to repeal an act of December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven, chapter one hundred and
seventy-one.

Act of 1837 chap.

171, repealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the act, entitled, a supplement to the
charter of the Tide Water Canal Company, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
chapter one hundred and seventy-one, be, and the same
is hereby repealed; and that Harford county court be
authorised to proceed with the trial of the inquisitions

taken under the charter of said company, in the same

manner as if the said supplement had not been enacted.

In case of disagree-

ment.

Sec. 2. And, be it enacted, That in every case of dis-
agreement between the Tide Water Canal Company
and the land holders claiming damages from said com-
pany, immediately before the swearing, or affirming,
of any jury of inquest of damages as aforesaid, it shall
be the duty of the sheriff to take and pronounce aloud,

Oath required of

Sheriff before

swearing the jury.

an oath in the following words, to wit: I make oath
that the several persons who have been summoned to
serve as jurors in this case, and whose names have just
been called, are to the best of my judgment and belief,
all of them upright, capable and impartial men, and
not directly or indirectly interested in the result of the