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An Act requiring the free negroes and mulattoes, to perform certain labor in the counties therein mentioned. 1849 [705] (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0203 and id is 1 raw text is: PHILIP F. TIOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVEINOR. 1S49. quired to condlrm o reject said report as they may criAP 534. dethnrmine. Eo. 2. ./nd be it enaded, That if the Orphans Decd to bo clrt of said county shall ednlinii aid report a executed rothrn, th6 siid Harrict.'homas is Hiereby authorised ard directed toi excute t6 tie person or persons with MPm the said . xchai'ge iiay be made, a good and sICient deed of conveyance for the said piece or rarcel (f lan i herebj, atdhorlsed tb be exchanged. Sb. 3. And be It eaced, That ihe real estate,\cq',ired land . I . .,to vest ill tile ,whichthe said Harriet Thomas may receive i ex ..... Jiange 1br the lecd or parcel of land hereby autho- rlsed to bo exchanged, shall be conveyed to tie saiul Iiiinor children, to be held by them, in tie same mai- hier. that the piece or parcel of land hereby author'ised 6b be exchanged is now held. CHAPTER 534. A1n act requiring the free negroes and mtlcilloes, to Passed Alar, 9 perfornt celain labor in the counlies therein vien- ls. tioned. WIEREAS, there are mii male free negroes and Preamble. nti.lattoes residing in Kent, Montgomery, Anne A run- 1el; proper, harles iird Prince George's counties, who. are not tax payers, and it being reasonable that they shotild contribute something toivards repairing the public ioads, of which they have the benefit and advan'taga-,Th ere fore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Free nrgroes. .eec.,fo work on' of Marylandi That it shall and may be lawful Ibr any public roads supervisor in said cotiities, within whose section of road any free negro ..mulatto may reside, to call on each of them, not be.ing under eighteen or over lbrty- five years of age, eicepting all stich as are employed by the year by a whiie citizen, or whose assessable property exceeds the stum of one hundred and filtv ,dollars,to iabbr in repairing the public roads, in said counties; providcd, that it shall riot be lawful for any Provi:o supervisor to call on any such free negro or mulatto to labor more than two days in any one year, and that each supervisor le required to make arid re- turn io the levy court of the several counties herein 89

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