PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

the master, mistress or owners or any person duly
authorised by them to make such claim, it shall be the
duty of the governor to demand such slave from the
chief executive authority of any State or Territory
into which such slave may have escaped.

CHAP. 310.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the purchaser of
such slave under the provisions of the second section of
this act shall be and he is hereby required to file in the
office of the clerk of the county, district or city in which
said sale shall be made a bond to the State of Mary-
land in the penalty of double the sum for which said
slave shall he sold, conditioned to remove him or her
from the State of Maryland, and in default of the exe-
cution of such bond by the first purchaser, the said slave
shall again be exposed to sale, and shall not be
delivered out of the custody of the sheriff until such
bond shall have been filed by the party purchasing.

Slave to be re-
moved by the
purchaser.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall be
given in charge by the judges to the grand juries of
the several counties, Howard district and the city of
Baltimore in this State, at the respective meetings of
their courts.

CHAPTER 310.

To be give
in charge

grand juries.

An act entitled, an act for the benefit of Christopher M.
Gill, of Baltimore County.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1848.

WHEREAS, it is right and proper that every citizen
of this State should have a right of way to a place of
public worship, to mill and market, as also access to
some public highway; and whereas, it has been repre-
sented to this General Assembly, that Christopher M.
Gill, of Baltimore county, is deprived of all such rights
and privileges for the want of a road or private right of
way; and whereas, it also appears that the commission-
ers of Baltimore county have heretofore directed a com-
mission to John Sumwalt and John Beckley, to locate
a private road or light of way for the use of said
Christopher M. Gill, which location has been made and
reported by the aforesaid commissioners to the com-
missioners of Baltimore county, but it further appearing
that said location and report of said commissioners have
not been confirmed by the board of commissioners for
Baltimore county — Therefore,

Preamble.