1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 247.

CHAPTER 246.

Passed March
6, 1845.

An act supplementary to an act for the General Valuation
and Assessment of Property, and to Provide a Tax to
Pay the Debts of the State, passed at March session,
eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter twenty-three.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, much doubt has existed in regard to the true
interpretation of the act of eighteen hundred and forty-
one, chapter twenty-three, whether the twenty cents on
the one hundred dollars, thereby directed to be levied, as a
direct tax, included the commissions allowed to collectors,
or whether such commissions were to be paid by an ad-
ditional levy; AND WHEREAS, the Court of Appeals has
recently decided that the said act designed that the clear
sum of twenty cents on the one hundred dollars, should be

Authorised
and directed to
levy a tax.

paid into the Treasury—Therefore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and the
levy courts or commissioners, as the case may be, of any
county or district, where a levy has not been made for the
payment of the commissions to the several collectors of the
direct tax, as recited in the foregoing preamble, be and
they arc hereby authorised and directed to levy a tax, for
the purpose of paying said collectors, according to the
provisions of the forty-seventh section of said act of eigh-
teen hundred and forty-one.....

CHAPTER 247.

Passed March
8, 1845.

An act supplementary to an act entitled, an act to provide
for the better regulation of Free Negroes and Mulatto
Children within this State, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and forty-two, chapter thirty-five.

Made lawful.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and
may be lawful for any master or the executor, administra-
tor or assignee, of any master of any negro or mulatto,
apprentice bound under the laws of this State to assign,
sell and transfer to any other person residing in the same

Proviso.

county such apprentice; provided, the Orphans' court of the
county, where the master, executor, administrator or as-
signee aforesaid may reside, assent thereto, and enter the
same upon the minutes of their proceedings.