1844

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 43.

owner of lands in Kent county, in the State of Maryland,
and also in Kent county, in the State of Delaware, and
for the purpose of cultivating the said lands in the said
two states, is desirous of removing his slaves from time
to time from the State of Maryland to the State of Dela-
ware, and to bring the said slaves back at pleasure—

Therefore,

May remove
slaves.

Proviso.

Infant chil-
dren may be
brought

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the said
John G. Black, to remove any slave or slaves for life, be-
ing the bona fide properly of the said John G. Black,
from the State of Maryland to the said State of Delaware,
and from the State of Delaware back into this State at
his will and pleasure, without any such slave or slaves,
being thereby entitled to his, her or their freedom, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, he will
first file a list or lists of such slaves intended to be remov-
ed from this State to the State of Delaware with the clerk
of Kent county court, with an affidavit thereto annexed,
stating the age and sex of such slave.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a!l and every child or
children which may be born of any female slave of the
said John G. Black, during the time of her removal from
this State to the State of Delaware, may at the will and
pleasure of the said John G. Black, be brought into this
State, and again carried back to the State of Delaware,
without such issue being thereby entitled to freedom, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 43.

Passed Feb.
8, 1845.

An act to consecrate the piece of ground at Ellicott's Mills
therein mentioned, to the use and purpose of a grave
yard.

Consecrated
and set apart.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all that part of a tract or parcel of land
at Ellicott's Mills in Howard District, called West Ilches-
ter, which is included within the following metes and
bounds, courses and distances to wit: Beginning for the
same at a stone marked E. 5, and running thence north
sixty-one degrees, fifteen minutes west, six perches and
sixth-tenths of a perch, thence north seven degrees fifteen
minutes east, five perches and ninety-two one-hundreths