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A supplement to the act, entitled, An Act to prevent free negroes from selling any corn, wheat or tobacco without having a license for that purpose, from a justice of the peace. 1825 196 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0137 and id is 1 raw text is: Decgeu 1825 PassedMarch JOSE PH KENT, 2tSMtARF. tbVkEOft CHAPTER 199. A supplement to the act, entited, An act to. preveit free negroes froni selling any corn, wheat oil tobacco without having tk 1itence for that p1lIose, Iom a justice of the peace. ltv for Sec. 1. Be it enacted by ihe General Asyembly of Marylando sfill That from and after the first day of May next, it shall not be oVith- law hul for any person to purchase of any free negro or mulatto, tificate nny quantity of tobacco in transfer or parcels, under the penalty of one hundred dollars for every such oflkcnce, to be recovered by indictment in the county court of the county where such person purchasing the same may residei one hilf shall go to the informer, and the othei half to the county, unless the free negro or mulatto, selling the same shall at the time of offezing the said t9bacco t~r sile, produce a certificate from a jiustice of the peace Of the county1 certifying the quantity and quality thereof. stick ot 2. And be it enacted, That no justice of thc peace shall give nstruc any certificate to any free negro or mulatto, unless the said free negro or mulatto, (as the case may he,) shall prove by one or more respectable citizens of the ncighbourlhood where he,she, or they may r'.side, that the tobacco was made by such free iegro or mulatto, or honestly acquired. rcerti- 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the justi(es of the peace, granting such certificates to charge and re- c i;e for the same, the sum of twenty-five cento, Passed Aarch Commission- e,.s to open books. ,' Capital $2,00,000-- shaes $100; CHAPTER 200. An act to ihicorporate the Susquehannah and Patapsco Canal Company. SEc. 1..Be it enacted by the General Assembly o/ JMaryland, That William Patterson, William Lormani John M'Kim, So. 1omon Etting, Charles S. Sewell, William Stewart, Isaac M'Kimj George Winchestcr, John Hollins, John Patterson, James L. Hawkins, William Gilmor, Benjamin C. Howard, David Burke, Alexander C. Bullit, John S. Tyson, James M'Culloh and' Jolin Archer, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them shall cause books to be opened qt such times and places as they may deem advisable, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of the company hereinafter incorporated; notice having been given as the said commissioners may, deem expedient, of the times and placei of opening the said books, and to continue the said books open* from time to time, so long and as often as they shall find necessary to compie such subscription. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the said com- pany shall be two millions five hundred . thousand dollars, in shares of 6ne hundred dollars each; and the corporation of. the city of Baltimore, and any other corporation or Individual in, this Penn purchd tobacco out cCrI JtH peace tod. Fee fo ficate.

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