1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 288.

Inconsistent
acts repealed.

rate the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore, pass-
ed at November session eighteen hundred and seven.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts

of acts heretofore passed, inconsistent with or repugnant
to the provisions of this act, be, and the same are here-
by repealed, and that this act shall be in force from the
passage thereof.

CHAPTER 288.

Passed May
27, 1852.

AN ACT to regulate the issuing of Licences to free
Negroes and Mulattoes, and to prevent their em-
ployment as Clerks in Somerset, Worcester and
Anne Arundel counties.

Clerks not to
grant license,
except by spe-
cial order of
court.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for the clerk
of the Circuit court for Somerset, Worcester and Anne
Arundel counties, to grant license to any free negro or
mulatto to sell merchandise in said counties, except by
the special order of the Circuit, court for the proper
county, to be passed on the recommendation of not less
than twelve respectable freeholders of the neighborhood
in which such negro or mulatto proposes to carry on
his business, and no license to any free negro or mu-
latto shall authorise the sale of ardent spirits.

Free negro
not to be em-
ployed as
clerk.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the
Circuit court aforesaid, shall not grant a license for any
purposes of trade to any white person who is or may be
in partnership with any free negro or mulatto, nor shall
any white person employ any free negro or mulatto as
a clerk in any mercantile business, under a penalty of
five hundred dollars for each offence; said penalty to be
recovered as other fines and forfeitures now are under
the laws of this State.