THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

Talbot county, by himself or any person or persons by
him authorised for this purpose, is and are hereby au-
thorised and empowered, to collect, until the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, all balances
due, as State collector of Talbot county, for the year
eighteen hundred and forty-one, in the same manner which
the said Henry P. Geoghegan could or might have done,
within the time limited by law, any thing to the contrary

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notwithstanding; provided nevertheless, before he or they
shall coerce by any legal process, be shall make oath be-
fore some justice of the peace for said county, that such
tax or the arrears thereof remaining due, and that he
hath not received any part thereof, nor any security or
satisfaction lor the same, more than the credits given, to
the best of his knowledge.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall remain
in full force until the first day of January, eighteen hun-
dred and forty-seven and no longer.

CHAPTER 390.

In force until
January 1847.

An act entitled, an act to enable Henry M. Jameson of
Wheeling, to sell or hire a negro boy in the State of
Maryland.

Passed Mar.
10, 1846.

Be it enacted by the General of Assembly Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be law-
ful for the said Henry M. Jameson or his agent, or the
trustee of his creditors, and he and either of them is
hereby authorised to sell or hire, in his or their discre-

Sell or hire.

tion, a negro boy named Lewis, about fifteen years of
age, within the State of Maryland; provided, that the
said Jameson coniform to the provisions of the law which
requires said slave to be filed with the clerk of the
county to which he is brought; and provided further,
that said Jamison pays the amount required for the use
of the colonization society.

Provisoes.