| Date | 1835 |
|---|---|
| Law/Legislation | Law |
| Jurisdiction | MD |
| Title | A further supplement to the act, entitled, an act relating to Free Negroes and Slaves, passed at December session eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter three hundred and twenty-three |
| Description/Full Text | Preamble. WHEREAS, there are many citizens in this state who hold land both in this state and the state of Virginia, and vice versa, who find much inconvenience from existing laws, in removing their slave labour from one state to the other, as necessity and occasion may require, and for the purpose of facilitating this intercourse, and at the same time to repress within proper limits the increase of the slave population in the state ; therefore, Remove slaves into this state. SEC, 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be lawful for any citizen of this state who may hold lands in Virginia and also in this state, and any citizen of Virginia who may hold lands in this state, to remove his slaves from Tirginia into this state, on his compliance with the requi- sitions and provisions of the fourth section of the act of assem- bly, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty- one, and also of the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-three, chapter eighty-seven, entitled, a further supplement to an act, entitled, an act relating to free negroes and slaves, so far as the To file list of negroes. same requires him to file on oath a list of the negroes so re- moved, in the clerk's office of the county into which they may be removed, and on payment of the tax for the same, for the benefit of the Colonization Society, as is therein prescribed. May be em- ployed in either state. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any slave or slaves so re- moved tinder this act, or the act to which this is a farther sup- plement, from Virginia into this state, or any slave or slaves owned in the state of Maryland, may hereafter be employed in either state, at the ojption of the owner or owners, and removed from one state to the other at his pleasure, without limitation or Proviso. restriction ; Provided however, that this act shall not be con- strued to affect in any wise, owners of slaves, to whom privi- leges are extended by the fourth section of the act, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter three hundred and twenty- three. |
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