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An additional supplement to an act entitled an act relating to Free Negroes and Slaves. 1834 [135] (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0161 and id is 1 raw text is: rAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE) GOVERNOR. i84. ha kept in repair as other public roads areby law within said cHAP. P-,W 'counties. Sece. 2. /d be it enacted, That the commissioners here- nmag by appointed, or a majority of them, bhall value and aseer- tain the damages that may be sustained by any person or persons through whose lands the aforesaid road may b6 made to pass,.taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and the damages when so ascertained and certified to the commissioners of said counties, shall be levied and assessed at their first levy, and collected as other Lej counly charges are within gaid counties, one moiety in each, and shall be paid over by the county commissioners, wherein such damages may be sustained to the person or perious entitled thereto. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, Oath requir4 before they proceed to act, shall personally take an oath or allirmation before some justice of the peace, that they -will, without favor, partiality, or prejudico, assess the damages sustained by the persons through whose land the said road may pass. CHAPTER 124. .Jn additional supplement to an act, entitled, an aCt relating Pse ar,2:..1 to Fre Negroes and Slaves, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty onei chapter thice hundred and twenty three. Be it enacted by the General tssemlbly of lfaryland, nlesidento on the That it shall arid may be lawful ror any citizen of that pai't of inaofdaedistaci the District of Columbia, which was coded by the State of Maryland, to the United States, owning land in any part of this State, orany citizen of the State owning property with-Allowed e... . a. in the said district, or. hereafter acquiring it, to remove any i.areuothai slave or slaves Ior life, being natives of this State or that -part of said District, and being the property of sueh citizeni into this State and from this State, back into that part of said District, at the will and pleasure of such owner, without any such slave or slaves being thereby entitled to their freedom, any law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, ontetioz -that nothing in this act contained,shall be construed to give power or authority to any citizen of the District of Colim-

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