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An Act entitled an act to amend the sixty-fifth article of the Code of Public General Laws, by repealing the forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth sections of said article and by adding thereto certain new sections, prohibiting manumission of negro slaves and authorising free negroes to renounce their freedom and become slaves. 1860 [480] (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0283 and id is 1 raw text is: tAWS OF MARYLAND CHAP. 322. cal laws shall be so altered as to read as follows: That the county commissioners of Washington shall levy a tax on the assessable property of said county sufficient for the use of the public schools of' said county, to be appropriated under the direction or' the board of school commissioners. Repeahd. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That section two hun- dred and seventy-five, of article twenty-one of the code of public local laws be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the following be enacted in lieu Children ad- thereof: The children attending public schools in mittedl to school free of Washington county shall be admitted free of charge charge. for nine months in each an:l every year. Cli A P T E R 322. Passed March AN ACT entitled, an act to amend the sixty-fifth 10, 180. article of' the Code of Public General Laws, by repealing the forty-second, forty-third, forty- fburth, fbrty-fifth and firty-sixth, sections of said article and by adding thereto certain new sections, prohibiting manumission of negro slaves and authorising free negroes to renounce their freedom and become slaves. Manumission SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the (Ueeral .elssembly of negroes J1 roie. s aryland, That the forty-second, forty-third, oirty-fburth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth sections of the sixty-fifth article of the Code of' Public General Laws, which authorise and regulate the manu- mission of, .slaves, be and the same arc hereby re- pealed, and that the fbllowing section le inserted in the said article in lieu of and as a substitute fbr he sections so repealed : No slaves shall hencefbrth be rmanmuitted by deed or by last will and testa- meat, nor shall the fact of' a negro's going at large and acting as free or not being claimed by an own- er, be considered as evidence of the execution here- tofore of any ldeed or will manumitting the party Pruviso, or as a ground for presuming freedom; Provided, that this vcion shall not apply to such negroes as may havc, been heretofore manumitted by deed 1860.

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