WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

CHAPTER 37.

CHAP. 38.

A further supplement to the act, entitled an act concerning
Crimes and Punishments, passed at November session
eighteen hundred and nine, chapter one hundred and thir-
ty-eight.

Passed Mar. 7,
1840.

WHEREAS, the provisions of the original act and the
several supplements thereto in relation to crimes and pun-
ishments in this State, conflict with each other as to the
extent of confinement in the penitentiary, in certain cases;
therefore, with a view to reconcile the same,

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the several county courts of this Stale and the city-
court of Baltimore, in sentencing convicts to the peniten-
tiary in compliance with the provisions of the act of De-
cember session eighteen hundred and thirty-six, chapter
one hundred and fifty-seven, may in their discretion, sen-
tence them to be confined in the said penitentiary for a
period not less than eighteen months, any law to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 38.

To sentence not

not less than
18 months.

An additional supplement to the act of eighteen hundred
and thirty-one, chapter three hundred and twenty-three,
entitled an act relating to Free Negroes and Slaves.

Passed Mar. 18,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That after the passage of this act, no free ne-
gro or mulatto, belonging to or residing in any other State,
shall come into this State, whether such free negro or mu-
latto intends settling in this State or not, under the penal-
ty of twenty dollars for the first offence; and no free ne-
gree or mulatto shall come into this State a second time
where he or she has been arrested under the provisions of
this act, under the penalty of five hundred dollars; the one
half of the said sum of five hundred dollars to the infor-
mer, and the other half to the sheriff for the use of the co-

No negro per-

mitted to come

into this State
under penalty.

lonization society of the State of Maryland, to be recov-
ered on complaint and conviction before the county court
of the county, or during the recess, the Orphans' court of

Recoverable.

said county in which he or she shall be arrested; and any
free negro or mulatto refusing or neglecting to pay said
fine, shall be committed to the jail of the county, and

In case of refu-
sal to pay.