| Date | 1834 (33? according to MSA) |
|---|---|
| Law/Legislation | Law |
| Jurisdiction | MD |
| Title | An act to encourage the more effectual apprehending of Runaway Servants and Slaves. |
| Description/Full Text | Preamble WHEREAS, by the fifth section of an act, passed at No- vember session, eighteen hundred and six, chapter eighty one, relating to runaway servants and slaves; it is provided that any person or persons seizing and taking up such runaways, shall have and receive six dollars, AND WHERE- AS, from experience, it is ascertained the sum is insufficient to give that impetus to the apprehension of such runaways as the case really deserves and to remedy the evil thereof: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, that from and after the passage of this act, the sum allowed for seizing, taking up and securing any runaway slave, from this or any other state, as provided by the fith section of this act, passed in eighteen hundred and six, above referred to, shall be thirty dollars instead of six dollars, as provided for by said original act, to be recovered according to the provisions of said original act, from the party owning or holding such slave. |
| Additional Information | – |
| Source | http://slavery.msa.maryland.gov/html/research/histlaw.html https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437123281111&view=1up&seq=141 |
| Transcriber Notes | – |
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