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An Act relating to Free Negroes in Cecil county. 1853 206 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0220 and id is 1 raw text is: ()6 ., LAWS OJ MARYLAND.u I .i ment of Samuel Dunnock,late of said county, deceased, tle orphan's court of said county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to make a distribution of the personal estaie of the tsaid Samuel; aniong the persons etilitled ao the snnie according to the principles of law Proviso. and the true construction of said will; Provided, the said petition shall be filed before the first day of August next. Notice tobe SEc. 2. dnd he it enacted, That it shall be the duty given to per- of the said court before procceding to make distributiorn nterest- as aforesaid, to give at least ten days notice i vriting to each person interested, of the day on which said distribution will be made, which said notice shall be seri'ed by the shetiff of the counties respectively in which said persons may reside. copy of dis- SEe. 3. And be it enacted, That the copy of the tributionhere- distribution heretofore made on file in the office of the tofore mandc to bereceivd clerk of the circuit. court for the county aforesaid, shall as evidence. be taken and received as prima facie evidence of the description and amount of the personal estate of the said Samuel to bo distributed as aforesnid. Right of op- Smc. 4. And be it cnacted, That any party feeling peal. himself or herself aggrieved by the decision of the court aforesaid in the premises, mnay appeal as in other cases from thedecision of the orphan's court. In force. Sic. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take eflect from its passage. CHAPTERu 177, Passed May AN ACT relating to Free Negroes in Cecil county. 5, 1853. Lawful to SEXcrIon I. Be it enacted by the General Assemibly leave the of 1'laryland, That it shall be lawful for any free State. negro, whilst in the employ of any white' person in Cecil county, to leave the State of Maryland and return, .withont being subject to the penalties imposed on frea negroes emigrating into this Stale, by the act of eigh- Provisoes. teen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter thirty-eight; Pro- * vided, that such free negro shall leave the State only for the purpose of transacting business for his white employer; And provided, further, that it shall not be lawful for such free negro to remain out of the State The quality of these images represent the quality of the microfiche that was digitized.

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