| Date | January 18, 1828 |
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| Law/Legislation | Law |
| Jurisdiction | MD |
| Title | An additional supplement to the act entitled, An act concerning crimes and punishments, passed December session eighteen hundred and eighteen, chapter one hundred and fifty seven. |
| Description/Full Text | Free persons en- ticing slaves to run away subjected to indictment & con- finement in the Penitentiary SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That if any free person shall entice, persuade or assist any slave or servant, knowing him or her to be such, to run away from his or her lawful owner or possessor, and such slave or servant, shall actually run away, or having harboured such run away slave or servant knowing him or her to be such, then such person shall be liable to indictment in the county court of the county where such offence shall have been com- mitted, or in the city court of Baltimore, if such offence shall have been committed in the city of Baltimore, and upon con- viction shall undergo a confinement in the Penitentiary not exceeding six years. Slave guilty of like offence to re- ceive thirty-nine lashes SEC, 2. And be it enacted, That if any slave shall entice, persuade or assist any slave or servant, knowing him or her to be such, to run away from his or her owner, master or mis- tress, and such slave or servant shall actually run away, then such slave so enticing, persuading or assisting, shall upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county where such offence was committed, or before any justice of the peace of the city of Baltimore if the offence shall be committed within the limits of said city, shall be sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes for such offence. Laws inconsistent herewith repealed SEC. 3, And be it enacted, That all such parts of the law, to which this is a supplement, as are inconsistent with the provisions herein contained, be, and the same are hereby re- pealed. |
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| Source | https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000474/html/am474--10.html http://slavery.msa.maryland.gov/html/research/histlaw.html |
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