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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822
Proviso.

and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful, for colo-
nel Roger Jones, of the United States army, to bring into this state
a certain negro boy named Adam, and him retain as a slave, any law
to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided, that nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed to authorise a disposition or sale of said
slave within three years after his importation aforesaid, otherwise
than by bequest in a course of distribution or by operation of law,
and that said slave be registered in the clerk's office of Anne-Arun-
del county court, within three months next after the arrival of such
slave in this state.

Passed Feb.
10, 1823.

Levy directed

CHAPTER 143.

A supplement to an act, entitled, An act incorporating into one the seve-
ral acts relating to constables fees.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the lew
courts of this state be, and they are hereby authorised and required
to levy on the assessable property of their respective counties the
amount of fees that the constables of the several counties are enti-
tled to receive by the act to which this is a supplement for executing

Proviso.

criminal business any law to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided,
that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to exempt; any crimi-
nals from paying the cost of their arrest, if they shall be of suffi-
cient ability to pay said cost themselves.

Passed Feb
17, 1823.

Commission-
ers of tax |di-
rected.

CHAPTER 144.

A supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of the securities
of Thomas Bailey, former collector of the tax for Baltimore county.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the com-
missioners of the tax for Baltimore county be, and they are hereby
authorised and directed to ascertain and fix the probable amount of
insolvencies that should have been allowed Thomas Bailey collector
of the tax for said county, for the year eighteen hundred and five, in
the same manner as if the returns had been made in time to the said
commissioners, and this allowance when ascertained and fixed shall
be an offsett against the claim of the levy court of Baltimore county
against said Bailey and his securities.

Passed Feb.
15, 1823.

Authorised.

CHAPTER 145.

An act for the benefit of Elizabeth A. Lowndes of Prince George's
County.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall
and may be lawful for Elizabeth A. Lowndes of Prince George's
county, to sell and dispose of any slave of which she may be pos-
sessed or entitled to, in the same manner, and with as full force and
effect in law as if the said Elizabeth A. Lowndes was, at the time
of selling such slave, twenty-one years of age, any law to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

Passed Feb
15, 1823.

Time allowed

CHAPTER 146.

A supplement to an act, entitled, An act to authorise the abutment of a
bridge on the 'Maryland shore of the Potomac River at Harper's
Ferry, and for other purposes, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and twenty one, chapter one hundred and nineteen.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary land, That a further
time of one year is hereby allowed to Catharine Wager and James
Bate Wager, the persons named in the original act, to commence the