INDEX.

Chap.

Sec.

FREDERICK COUNTY—

final discharge to Lewis Foul and Wil-

liam Glessner, &c.,

100

Act to regulate the height of fences

in Petersville election district of, passed

1845, chapter 138, repealed,

166

The supplemental act of 1844, chap.

238, authorising levy court of, to levy

a sum therein mentioned, repealed,

179

2

Levy court of, authorised to insure

the public buildings, &c.,

221

Levy court to levy to build a bridge

over Owings' creek, at some point north

of Elder's ford, on the road from West-

minster to Hagerstown, &c.,

235

Trustees of Burkittsville school dis-

trict in, to procure a lot of ground and

build a school house, &c.,

247

Provisions of act of 1838, chapter

205, relating to the liens of mechanics,

&C , extended to,

312

FREE NEGROES, &c.— See residence.

FREE NEGROES AND SLAVES— See Queen

Anne's county.

FREE NEGRO AND MULATTO CHILDREN—

Upon information given to any consta-

ble or justice where such reside, that

there are any child or children, of any free

negro, &c., who ought to be bound out

under act of 1839, chapter 35, they shall

give notice to the person having the

custody of such, that they must be bound,

&c., and if parent, &c. fail within 20

days from time of notice, constable if he

give the notice, to carry child, &c. be-

fore two justices of the peace, who

shall bind them, &.c, in the same man-

ner as orphans courts now do; if notice

be given by justice, and failure on part

of parent, &c., justice to issue his war-

rant to some constable to carry such

child before some two justices and

bind, &c.; compensation $200 to each

justice and constable for binding each

child, to be paid by person to whom

bound.

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