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554 INDEX.
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FREDERICK COUNTY—
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PG.
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CH.
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SC.
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eight to four, for district number twelve
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to three,
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423
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302
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1
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The clerk of the circuit court for, di-
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rected to record among the land records
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of said county a certain mortgage from
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Suratt D. Warfield, jr., to Sophia Sim-
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mons,
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424
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305
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1-2
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FREE NEGROES— Act to allow Henry Hop-
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kins, a, of State of Missouri, to return to
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this State,
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See act for the better protection of
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slaveholders in the counties therein men-
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tioned,
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1-8
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Act for the relief of Wm. Seymore, a
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free negro of Talbot county,
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261
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Act providing a remedy against free
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negroes who may hire for a stipulated
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period to any person, and quit the ser-
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vice of such person after entering on the
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same, and providing a remedy against
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persons who may employ such free ne-
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groes with the knowledge that they had
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previously hired to another, or engaged
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in another's service,
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273
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Punishment for leaving the service of
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employer without reasonable cause; same
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deemed a misdemeanor; warrant may
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issue in name of State for the apprehen-
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sion of such negro, and the justice may
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try the case; what shall be evidence
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against said free negro,
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That if any free negro shall hereafter
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contract or agree in writing to hire to any
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white person for a certain time, and then
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refuse to enter into such service, and hire
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to another person, the first person to have
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process of summons, and upon judgment
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against such free negro, it shall be a lien
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upon two-fifths of wages in the hands of
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the person in whose service said negro
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shall be engaged, &c.,
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Punishment of said free negro for leav-
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ing service after judgment rendered,
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Persons hiring or employing any free
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