554 INDEX.

FREDERICK COUNTY—

PG.

CH.

SC.

eight to four, for district number twelve

to three,

423

302

1

The clerk of the circuit court for, di-

rected to record among the land records

of said county a certain mortgage from

Suratt D. Warfield, jr., to Sophia Sim-

mons,

424

305

1-2

FREE NEGROES— Act to allow Henry Hop-

kins, a, of State of Missouri, to return to

this State,

66

66

See act for the better protection of

slaveholders in the counties therein men-

tioned,

247

194

1-8

Act for the relief of Wm. Seymore, a

free negro of Talbot county,

351

261

Act providing a remedy against free

negroes who may hire for a stipulated

period to any person, and quit the ser-

vice of such person after entering on the

same, and providing a remedy against

persons who may employ such free ne-

groes with the knowledge that they had

previously hired to another, or engaged

in another's service,

368

273

Punishment for leaving the service of

employer without reasonable cause; same

deemed a misdemeanor; warrant may

issue in name of State for the apprehen-

sion of such negro, and the justice may

try the case; what shall be evidence

against said free negro,

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That if any free negro shall hereafter

contract or agree in writing to hire to any

white person for a certain time, and then

refuse to enter into such service, and hire

to another person, the first person to have

process of summons, and upon judgment

against such free negro, it shall be a lien

upon two-fifths of wages in the hands of

the person in whose service said negro

shall be engaged, &c.,

369

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2

Punishment of said free negro for leav-

ing service after judgment rendered,

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3

Persons hiring or employing any free