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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Passed Jan. 1,
1822.
May import
certain slaves.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 20.

An act for the relief of Benedict and Alexius Boone.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That it
shall and may be lawful, for Benedict Boone and Alexius Boone,
the administrators of Alexius Boone, (deceased,") to bring back into
this state, from the state of Virginia, at any time or times within
twelve months after the passage of this law, two negro slaves, to
wit: William, aged about eighteen years, and Daniel, aged about
twenty-one, (they being the two negro slaves, sent into the state of
Virginia, by their testator, a short time previous to his decease, to
be employed on a farm to which the testator intended to remove,)
for the purpose of applying them as assets in their hands, in the
same manner as if the said negroes had not been sent out of the
state, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided, That no-
thing in this act, shall in any manner be so construed as to give the
said negroes William and Daniel, any claim whatever to freedom.

Passed Jan. 1,
1822.

May import
his slave Lucy.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 21.

An act to authorise Robert Morris, of Talbot county, to bring into
this state a certain negro slave therein mentioned.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly, of Maryland, That
Robert Morris, of Talbot county, be, and he is hereby authorised
and empowered, to remove from the state of Delaware, and to bring
into this state, his negro slave called Lucy, aged sixteen years, and
to hold her as his slave, any law to the contrary notwithstanding;
Provided, The said Robert Morris, shall, within thirty days after
the removal of said negro slave in this state, have her registered
in the clerk's office of Talbot county court; And Provided, That no-
thing herein contained shall be construed to authorise a sale of the
aforesaid slave within three years from the period of bringing in
the same, otherwise than by bequest, in a course of distribution, or
by operation of law.

Passed Jan. 2,

1822.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 22.

An act to enable Joseph Chain, of Talbot county, to purchase and
hold real property within this state.
Whereas, Joseph Chain, of Talbot county, an East Indian by
birth, and some time claimed as a slave by a certain Doctor Lewis
S. Le Claire, of the county of Baltimore, hath obtained from the
said Lewis S. Le Claire, a full manumission, according to law, and
the said Joseph Chain hath purchased and contracted for certain
parcels of real estate within this state; Therefore,

May hold real
property.

Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
said Joseph Chain, shall be, and hereby is enabled to have, hold
and take, such real property in this state as the said Joseph Chain
shall have purchased and contracted for before the passage of this
act, and may sell and dispose of the same in like manner as a natu-
ral born citizen of the United States may; and in case of the death
of the said Joseph Chain, without any disposition of his said real
estate by deed or will, the same shall descend to, and be vested in
his issue or their legal representatives, according to the due and
ordinary course of descent.