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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822
Passed Feb

13 1823.

Former act
modified.

CHAPTER 172.

An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act to regulate the in-
spection of tobacco.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
nothing contained in the act, entitled, A further supplement to the
act, entitled, An act to regulate the inspection of tobacco, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and twenty one, chapter one
hundred and ninety four, shall be construed to authorise the inspec-
tors of tobacco in this state, to retain in their possession any samples
they may draw under the provisions of said act, without the assent
of the owners thereof or their agents.

Former acts
repealed..

2. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act aforesaid, which
makes it the duty of the inspectors to attend once in each of the
months of April, May, June, July, August, September, October and
November in every year for shewing the said samples to dealers, on
such days as the respective levy courts shall appoint, and which di-
rects notice of such meetings to be published in as many newspapers
in the District of Columbia and Baltimore as may be deemed neces-
sary to give information of such meetings, be and the same are here-
by repealed.

Charles & St.
Mary's coun-
ties.

3. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act, entitled, A
further supplement to the act entitled, An act to regulate the inspec-
tion of tobacco, passed at December session, 1821, chapter 194, as
are not repealed by this act, be and the same are hereby extended to
Charles and St. Mary's counties, to be of full force and effect in said

counties.

Passed Feb
21, 1823.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 173.

An act in favour of William Wright of Queen Ann's county.
WHEREAS, William Wright, of Queen Ann's county, by his peti-
tion hath set forth to this general assembly that he intermarried with
a lady of the state of Louisianna, by whom he became entitled to a
negro man named Thornton, and a negro girl named Esther, which
cannot be removed from the said state of Louisiana into the state of

Import slaves

Maryland without a law for that purpose; therefore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall
and may be lawful for the said William Wright, to remove the said
negro man named Thornton and negro girl Esther into this state, and
to have and to hold the said negroes as slaves as fully and amply as
though they had never been removed, any law to the contrary not-

Provisos

withstanding; Provided, the said William Wright shall within six
months after the passage of this act, make out and deliver to the clerk
of Queen Ann's county court, a list of said slaves, stating their
ages, names and sexes, which list the said clerk is hereby empowered
and directed to record; and provided also, that nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed to allow a disposition of said slaves, except
in cases of disposition by last will and testament, and dispositions by
law for bona fide debts, or consequent upon intestacy in less than
three years after the passage of this act.

Passed Feb
31, 1823.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 174.

An act for the relief of Nathaniel Boggs.
WHEREAS, it has been represented to this general assembly by the
petition of Nathaniel Boggs, a free mulatto, born in the state of Vir-
ginia, that he has lived in this state for some time past, and that he
has been usefully employed in the boating business, and whereas, he