PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

quired to confirm or reject said report as they may
determine.

CHAP 534.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the Orphan's
court of said county shall confirm said report and
return, the said Harriet Thomas is hereby authorised
and directed to execute to the person or persons with
whom the said exchange may be made, a good and
sufficient deed of conveyance for the said piece or
parcel of land hereby authorised to be exchanged.

Deed to be
executed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the real estate
which the said Harriet Thomas may receive in ex-
change for the piece or parcel of land hereby autho-
rised to be exchanged, shall be conveyed to the said
minor children, to be held by them, in the same man-
ner that the piece or parcel of laud hereby authorised
to be exchanged is wow held.

CHAPTER 534.

Acquired land
to vest in the
children.

An act requiring the free negroes and mulattoes, to
perform certain labor in the counties therein men-
tioned.

Passed Mar. 9,
1850.

WHEREAS, there are many male free negroes and
mulattoes residing in Kent, Montgomery, Anne Arun-
del, proper, Charles and Prince George's counties,
who are not tax payers, and it being reasonable that
they should contribute something towards repairing
the public roads, of which they have the benefit and
advantage— Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for any
supervisor in said counties, within whose section of
road, any free negro mulatto may reside, to call on
each of them, not being under eighteen or over forty-
five years of age, excepting all such as are employed
by the year by a while citizen, or whose assessable
property exceeds the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars, to labor in repairing the public roads, in said

Free negroes,
etc. to work on
public roads.

counties; provided, that it shall not be lawful for any
supervisor to call on any such free negro or mulatto
to labor more than two days in any one yean, and
that each supervisor he required to make and re-
turn to the levy court of the several counties herein

Proviso.