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An Act to authorise Elizabeth Anne Upshur Teackle, of Somerset County, to import a slave into this state. 1823 10 (1823)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0106 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 SAMUEL STEV'ENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. Dee. es.18SS CtUAPFR 13. An act to confirm the proceedings of certain cominissionera therein mentionea. Passed Dee. WHtREAS,an act was pa.sed by the General Assembly of Mary- .16, 1823. P-amble, land at'the December session'eighteen hundred and twenty two, en- titled.'an act to appoint -commissioners for the purpose of dividing Dorchester county into six separate election districts. And zvhereas, the said commissioners hre'directed by the said act to meet -it the place of holding the county court of eaid county, for the purpose of performing the duties under'the said -act, on the first Monday of March next ensuing the passage of said act. -And wlhereav, the said commissioners did not receive the said act until April, and were thetlhy'prevented from the performance of the dutit-s'assigned them at the'time prescribed by the said act: Therefore, Preceedugt Be it enacted bq the General Assembly of Alarifand, That the pro- confirmed. ceedings'd cettain commissioners ap'poifited to divide Dorche. ter county itito six separate election districts, 'be, and are hereby con- firmed, made valid to all intents and pttrpoies, any provision in the said act relative to the time when'the said coimfissioucrb should meet to perform the duties assigned'them by said act, to the contra- ry notwithstanding. CHIAP. :. I Passed De'. An adt to ahthori- sthe levy co,1-t )f c, r rc. i I tv to provide an office for 16, 1833. the ci) of .,i VHERE.AS, it is represclt Ld i), 11,e i 5h iiset coun Preamble. ty, that in consequence of the ruinju, L. 11 Ol t.' a*rtpnt'It of the court house in which the i t'or,. W' i, :Ct, are kept, tile said papers and r, curd's arie ;ii t n. '-r ot i :t'stroN'ed, and the business of thu olfice retaried tni d';r, . i' relo-e Levy court Si:c. 1. Be it enacted by/ic (,'enfui .th:., ?/,b:/ ,J Marzlad, That authorised. the levy cout of nomerset couity, be, amI thi:v !e : 'ireby :utho- riseti and directed forthwith, to ;-rovi,! a silitable ioulse Hi M-'qilcss Ame, for the r,, ception of the records of th2 county, and for tile use of the i:lerk o: said cunty. lp:ipne. 2. Andbe it enacted, 1hat the rent and other expenses accruing upon the removal of said office, shall be ,aid ,lnd defrayed by the levy court of said county, olit of any unappropriated fuids, or by a levy upon the taxable property of the county. Vassed Dec. An act to authorise Elizabeth Anne Upshur Teackle, of Somerset courty, toim- 18, 183. fort a slave into this state. import slayc. Spc. I . Be it enacted b! the General Ayst-mbl9 of Maryland, That Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teack;e, of Somerstt county, be, and she is hereby authoried at any time after the passage of this act, to re- move and bring into this state a certain negro slave named Moses, aged about fiftecn years; and that the removal of the said slave to this state shall not in any manner entitle him to his freedom; J'rovi- ded, that the said slave when removed agreeably to the provisions of this act, shall be register ed among the tecords of Somerset coun- ty court, within three months after his removal. 11eStrictiolk. 2. And e it enacted, That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to authorise a disposition of the sa-d slave, except in case of disposition by last will and testament, and dispositions by law for bona fide debts or consequent upon intestacy, in les than three years after the passage of this act. The quality of these images represent the quality of the microfiche that was digitized.

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