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A further supplement to an act entitled, An Act to prevent the inconveniences arising from slaves being permitted to act as free. 1821 127 (1821)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0075 and id is 1 raw text is: .AM EL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNORI. 127 4,. AwD BE IT ENACTED, That should any overseer as aforesaid Dec. Ses. 1821, neglcct to report as aforesaid, he shall be subject to the same penal-. 'ty to be recovered in the same manner as prescribed for neglect of NeAlect to re- duty in the sixth section of the act to which this is a supplement. port, 5. AND BE IT ENACTRD, That the overseers to be appointed by Compensation 'virtue of this act shall respectively be allowed a sum not exceeding of overseers. sixteen dollars a year for discharging the duties imposed by this act; which allowance shall be paid to them in the same mamer as heretofore provided. CHAPTER 183. uAfurthcr sitpplement to an act entitled, An act to prevent the ihcon- passed Feb. 0, veniences arising from slaves being- permiitted to act as Iree. 1822. S c. 1. Bi-- IT ENACTED By the Generaldssenlbly of Allaryland, Constanhles That from and after the first day of October, in the year one thou- may arrest. 'sand eight hundred and twenty-two, it shall be the duty of the con- stables in Worcester and Caroline counties, to arrest and bring be- fore a justice of the peace, any slave or slaves who may be going at large and hiring him, her or themselves within their respective hun- 'dreds, or who may not have a fixed home in the family or on the estate of his, her or their owner, or be hired to and in the regular employ of another person by virtue of a contract with his, her or their owner. 2. ANB EIE i'r ENAcTBD, rhatin all cases where a slave or slaves Slavesviolat. shall or may be brought before any justice of the peace under the ing may be hir. provision of the first section of this act, if it appear to the satisfac- ed- tion of the said justice of the peace, that said slave or slaves so ar- rested and brought before him, were going at large in violation of an act of assembly passed at April session seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled, An act to prevent the inconveniences arising from slaves being permitted to act as free, and the supplements thereto, or of this act, he shall forthwith issue an order to the con- stable who shall or may have brought the said slave or slaves be- fore him, to hire such slave or slaves for the entire balance of the year in which they may have been arrested; and for each examina- tion of slaves had before him under this act, a Justice of the peace shall be entitled to twenty-five cents, to be levied on the county as part of the county expenses for the ensuing year. 3. AND BE IT E NACTR 1), That it shall be the duty of the consta- Constablhi to bles to keel) an account of the slaves by them respectively hired out, keep accounts and the amount of hire for each received, to be submitted to the levy of hire. court at its first session in the year after such procceding may have been had under this act, and the amount so returned to be account- ed for by the constable to the levy court for the use and benefit of the county. 4. AND Br ITr ErAc'rE), That the levy courts of the several Fee, counties in this state, be and they are hereby authorised to levy ant allow to any constable who may have taken up alnd hired out a slave or slaves under this act, two dollars for each and every slave so tak- en up and hired out: Provided, That in no instance such allowance Provho, shall exceed two thirds of the amount by ur paid over to the court. 5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any constable who refuses or ne- Neglect- .pen.- glects to comply with the requisitions of this act, !,haltu -e subicct ally. to a fine of not more than ten dollars nor less than three dollars, to The quality of these images represent the quality of the microfiche that was digitized.

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