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An Act authorising Mary Keene to remove her negroes from the state of Virginia into this state. 1811 12 (1811)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 12             LAWS OP MARYLAND.
1811.                   CHAPTER 13.
' o An Act to authorisc and empower the justices of
Passed Deca 21,      a
Dec1.   the Levy Court, of Caroline county, to discon-
tinue so much of thepublic road as is therein
mentioned.
r eamble.   WHEREAS, It is represcnted to this General As-
sembly, by the petition of William Parrott, Deborah
Barroek, Nancy Bartlett and others, that so much of
the public road, leading from the old road that leads
from Greensborough to Hillsborough, through the
farms of the aforesaid William Parrott, Deborah Bar-
rock and Nancy Bartlett, until it intersects the main
road leading from Boonsborough to, Denton, at Th0.
mas Hlardcastle's gate, is ofino possible public utility,
and greatly injurious to the interest of the said peti-
tioners: Therefore,
justices or the  BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
levy court u. ,liryland, That the justices of the levy court of
tborised to dis.Citybeadh                 h'    au    o'
continue said aroline county, be acd they are hereby authorised
Oad if sequir- an( directed, if they shall see proper, at their first
ed.       session, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve,
upon the application of the said William Parrott, and,
others through whose lands the aforesaid road now
runs, to discontinue and stop the same fro'In the said
XVilliam Parrott's to Thomas Hlardeastle's gate, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding.
CHAPTER 14.
assed Dec. 27, An act authorising Mary Keene to remove' her ne-
1811.       groesfrom the state of Virginia into this state.
Mary Keeneau.  BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
tlhried within Mlaryland, TJhat the said Mary Keene be, and she is
2 months to hereby authorised and empowered at an time or times
venore herantie
negrs int  within twelve months after the passage of this act, to
thisstate.  remove and bring into this state, all and every of her
negro slave or slaves, that she may now have a bona
tidle absolute right unto, in the same manner that she
might or could have done at the time of her own remo-
val into this state, any law to the contrary thereof in
any wise notwithstanding.
Said negroes  AND BE IT ENACTFED, That the said Mary
shall beregi - Keene register the said negroes in Dorchester countv
Itred  ill €outity•
court.    court, in the same manner as she by law would have
courtI

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