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An Act to exempt from distress for rent, negro slaves or servants which are not bonafide, the property of the person liable to such rent. 1823 97 (1823)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0116 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OV MARYLAND. ;ind what sum or sums of money to tihe btate; 45n1 upon such verdict Dec.Ses. 1823 ol the jury to pass judgment in the name of the state against the said , -collectur, upol whicl\i therm shall be no writ of error, supersedeas or :-ppe'l, and to award execution thereon as upon all other cases'of Judgments had in the said court. 4. lind be it enrcted, That the levy conrts of the several counties Meeting' in this state, shall meet on or befdre the first Monday in May next, levy .courtA. to levy md asEsess the sums mentioned in this ict. C4APlTER 151I. An act to exempt from distress for rent, negro slaves o' servants which are not Passed Feb. bonafide, the propcrty of ie person liable to such rent. ' 19 1d24. WIE UA , it is manifestly unjust that any persons property should vViereas. be taken to pay rent that he dos not owe; yet from the difficultv of di'crimination and the liability to abuses in other species and descrip- tions of property, it is deemed proper to only exempt negro slaves and servyants, and inasmuch as very many widows and orphan' are ex. 1posd to this injustice, who derive their support from the wages of :Javcs whom they hire out; for remedy thereof. le it enacted by the General Asvs'cmbly oj Maryland That from Exemption. and after the passage of this act, no negro .lave or servant shall be liable to be destrained, or shall at any time he destrained.for house rent, or any other rent unless such slave shall bonafide belong-to such person or persons, as may be lawfully liable to, or chargeable with such rent. CHAPT Ft.-152. An act to continue in force the Acts of Assembly which would expire with the present session. Be it encted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all such acts and parts of such acts as would expire with the present session of assembly, he and the same are hereby continued to the first day of December next, and to the end of the next session of assenm- bly which shall happen thereafter. cnifAP''I 153. An act to appoint Conmissiuners to review the ninth and part of the tenth e- lection districts ill Baltimore county, and establish a pnroper place for holding the election. VHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly by the peti- tion of sundry inhabitants of B1altinore county, that the place of holding the election in the ninth election district ii not central and convenient, and the prayer of the petitioner, appearing reasonable;- Therefore, •Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Abraham Cole, Njatlaniel Childs, William Matthews, James Tur- ner & Thomas Pearce, shall be and they are hereby appointed, and au- thorisedor a majority of them to review the ninth and the tipper part of the tenth eh.tiou districts in Baltimore couaty, and make such alterations or changes in the present location of said districts as may most conduce to the geneiral convenience of the people, and to ap- point a place-to hold all fut ire elections at the ninth district as nearly central as shall be practicable, having regard to population, extent and the convenience of voters, and the acrommodation of persons attendant upon such clections; and the said commissioners shall on or before the fifteenth day of July next, deliver to the clerk of Bal- timore county court, a description in writing under their hands and seals specifying plainly any alteraion in the locsAtion of the said diz,, S. 13 Passed Feb. 19,1824. Continued. Passed Feb. 19: 1824. Preamble. Persons to review and report. The quality of these images represent the quality of the microfiche that was digitized.

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