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An Act authorising Mary Keene to remove her negroes from the state of Virginia into this state. 1811 12 (1811)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 12 LAWS OP MARYLAND. 1811. CHAPTER 13. ' o An Act to authorisc and empower the justices of Passed Deca 21, a Dec1. the Levy Court, of Caroline county, to discon- tinue so much of thepublic road as is therein mentioned. r eamble. WHEREAS, It is represcnted to this General As- sembly, by the petition of William Parrott, Deborah Barroek, Nancy Bartlett and others, that so much of the public road, leading from the old road that leads from Greensborough to Hillsborough, through the farms of the aforesaid William Parrott, Deborah Bar- rock and Nancy Bartlett, until it intersects the main road leading from Boonsborough to, Denton, at Th0. mas Hlardcastle's gate, is ofino possible public utility, and greatly injurious to the interest of the said peti- tioners: Therefore, justices or the BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of levy court u. ,liryland, That the justices of the levy court of tborised to dis.Citybeadh h' au o' continue said aroline county, be acd they are hereby authorised Oad if sequir- an( directed, if they shall see proper, at their first ed. session, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, upon the application of the said William Parrott, and, others through whose lands the aforesaid road now runs, to discontinue and stop the same fro'In the said XVilliam Parrott's to Thomas Hlardeastle's gate, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. CHAPTER 14. assed Dec. 27, An act authorising Mary Keene to remove' her ne- 1811. groesfrom the state of Virginia into this state. Mary Keeneau. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of tlhried within Mlaryland, TJhat the said Mary Keene be, and she is 2 months to hereby authorised and empowered at an time or times venore herantie negrs int within twelve months after the passage of this act, to thisstate. remove and bring into this state, all and every of her negro slave or slaves, that she may now have a bona tidle absolute right unto, in the same manner that she might or could have done at the time of her own remo- val into this state, any law to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. Said negroes AND BE IT ENACTFED, That the said Mary shall beregi - Keene register the said negroes in Dorchester countv Itred ill €outity• court. court, in the same manner as she by law would have courtI

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