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A supplement to an act entitled An act relating to Free Negroes and Slaves. 1832 [403] (1832)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0152 and id is 1 raw text is: JAMES TIIOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. with the addition of interest for the year in arrear, at their cHAP. 317. next meeting, for laying the county levy or city tax. I,,n.,t to ad- o dvid to levy. CHAPTER 317. .0 slipplCment to an act, entitled, .In act reluting to Free fe- rased Mar.23,t833 grocs anld Slaves, passed at Dcccmbcr session, cightem hundred and thirty-one, chapter three hundcred and twenty- three. \VIIEREAS, the introduction of Slaves into this State, ex- preabte. cept in a few speci, ed cases, has been and ought to be pro- hibited; AmD W1VHIHEAS, a wise and consistent policy de- mands that special acts of Legislation, on that subject, should be avoided, and that all cases (if hardship, justly entitled to relief, be embraced under some general princi- pies, in a single law-Therefore, Section 1. Be it enacted by the General fissembly of '.t cnt,,,ed to 1lotdit-it $In% (I Mhr. Maryland, That nothing ini any former act shall be constru- . lit &a1 rom ed to prohibit any person from again bringing into this returning State any Slave, for life, who shall have been or may herc- after be taken firom this State and hired or lent to service in any adjoining State or District for a limited time; Provi- Prohiio. (fed, that no such slave shall be introduced into this State by any person, other than an actual inhabitant of this State, who shall also be the owner of such slave, bot h1 at tile time of hiring or lending aforesaid and of bringing back the said slave; or, in case of the death of tile original owner, by his heirs, executors, administrators, or legatees. Sec. .2. Ad be it enactcd, That it shall be lawful for any re,,,, Iin.in lrt-violli y pur- person or persons, who may have, previously to the passage V , ,ti.1,, &C. to of this act, purchased hand in this State, with the bona fide ,,du the,o., intention of residing thereon, or acquired by inheritance or othrwise, real estate, in this State, and intending to reside thereon, to introduce into the State any slave owned by May inoduce them, at the passage of the act to wvhicl this is a supple- ment; Provided, a list of said slaves, specil)ing their ages, Provio names, and sex, be left for record with the clerk of the county court of the county into which they are so removed, Listsrcorded. within thirty days thereatier, together with the affidavit of the owner or owners, that the conditions required by this section have been truly complied with, and that they are not introduced for sale, and are slaves for life. 1832.

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