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An Act to prevent free negroes and slaves from having or using boats on the Potomac river. 1858 521 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0270 and id is 1 raw text is: THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 521 debts, is hereby extended from the tweutieth day of October to the first day of January in each year. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall To take Weot. take effect in Somerset county only, and from the date of its passage. SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts incon- Repealed. sistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 356. AN ACT to prevent free negroes and slaves from Paused Mrsh having or using boats on the Potomac river. 9,1858. SECTON 1. Be it enactced by the General Assen- Free people of bly of .J1arylcnd, That no free person of color, or color or slave not to use any slave, shall have or use any row boat or other boat. boat on the Potomac river or shore thereof, in Charles or Prince George's county, without, in case of a free person of color, first obtaining a license from a justice of the peace of the respec- tive county, and in case of a slave, the special written permit of his master or owner. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no justice of Justice of the the peace of either Charles or Prince George's grant l tos county, shall grant any license to any free per- son of color of either county, to have and use any boat on the Potomac river or shore thereof, in the said counties, without a written certificate that said free person of color is of good moral character, signed by at least two respectable land holders near the place where said boat is usually had and used. SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That at any time Llew~e may two or more landholders on the shore of the Po- be suppressed. tomac in either of the said counties, in writing, shall recomined the suppression of any license under the provisions of this bill, the justice of the peace who granted shall suppress the same, and notify the said person of color, who shall 66

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