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A supplement to an act entitled an act to prevent the unlawful Exportation of Negroes and Mulattoes and to alter and amend the Laws concerning Runaways. 1834 [343] (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0171 and id is 1 raw text is: JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE I GOVERNOR. the provisions of this tict, lie or they shall forfeit and pay CRAP. 20: to the Treasurer of the Western Shore of this State, a iun not less than twenty, nor more than three hundred dollars, according to the nature of the offence, nid at the discretion of tile Court of Anne Arundel county; winch may be re- covered in aly proper action before said Court. Sec. 3. ,Aid be it enacted, That it shall be tih duly or the Attnrney General of this State, or his deputy, on the complaint of any of tho officers albrcsaid, to prosecute for all violations of this act. CHAPTER 266. 1 supplcnient to an act, enlilcd, an act to prevent the unlaw. Pacd tar 1,18s ful Exiportation of .Alegrocs and J1latltoes and to idler and amend the Laws concerning Runaways, passed at Do- comber session, cightecit hudiurcd and seventcen, chapter one hIdred and twelve. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General ,lssembly o' ,Ml'I, 2 orne t ora i ryland, That the provisions of the second section of the Vha,1,2rx- act of tile Gener:d Assembly of M aryland, passed at De- cember session, in the year eighteen hundrd and seventeen, chapter one hundred and twelve, he, alid they are hereby extended to all cases where any person, bein- a resident of this State, shall purchase or receive, Oni aly contract, any servant or slave, who is, or may be entitled to freedom afteir a term of years, or after any particulaw timel, or upon any contingency, knowing that succh servant or slave is so cnti- tied to freedomn, with an intention to transport such servant or slave out of the State; and to all cases where any person, being a resident of this State, shall remove such servait or slave out of this State, and shall sell the same, kInowing the said servant or slave to be so entitled to freedom; and all the provisions of said act are hereby declared to apply to the case of such person residimg in this Stlate, to evey ef- fect, as i such case were originally embraced in the terms of said second section. See. 2. And to it enacted, That nothing contained in Constmed this act, shall be construed to repeal any part of tile act, papsed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty- three, chapter two hundred and twenty four. 1834.

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