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CHAP. 95.
For keeping a
kennel of hounds. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after the
first day of
March next, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep
and maintain any kennel or pack of hounds, or any number of those
species of dogs exceeding three, within Baltimore county, within
one mile of the city of Baltimore; and nay person or persons keeping
and maintaining, or causing to be kept and maintained, any
number of hounds, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall forfeit
and pay the sum of twenty dollars for every such offence, and
shall moreover be subject to pay the further sum of one dollar per
day for each and every day the said hounds, exceeding as above,
shall be so kept or maintained thereafter. |
Expenses of burying
carrion to be
recovered. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons
who shall
bury or remove any dead carcase or offensive carrion thrown out
and deposited contrary to the provisions of this act, shall recover,
before any justice of the peace, against the person or persons guilty
of such offence, all expenses thereby incurred in burying and removing
the same. |
Fines, how to be
recovered. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, that all fines and forfeitures
accruing
under this act shall be recoverable, and may be recovered, before any
justice of the peace for Baltimore county, one half for the use of the
said county, and the other for the use of the informer, and it shall
be the duty of such justice or justices respectively, to receive one
half of all such fines and forfeitures, to render an account thereof
to the levy court annually, at their October term, and to pay the
amount to the trustees for the poor of Baltimore county. |
| Duration. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue and be
in force for and during the term of three years, and until the end of
the next general assembly that shall happen thereafter.
Continued by the general continuing
acts 1806, ch. 52, to 31st October, then
next, and to the end of the next session thereafter, &c. Similar
general continuing
acts have since been passed at every annual session. |
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Passed January 8, 1803. |
CHAP. XCVI.
An act relating to runaway Servants and Slaves. Lib. JG.
No. 4,
fol. 306.
See 1806, ch. 81, s. 5. 1810, ch. 63, and 1817, ch. 112. |
Sheriffs to advertise
runaway
slaves taken up. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it
shall be the duty of the sheriffs of the several counties of this state,
and they are hereby respectively required and directed, upon any
runaway servant or slave being committed to his custody, to cause
the same to be advertised in some public news-paper or papers
printed in the city of Baltimore, the city of Washington, and the
town of Easton, and in such other public manner as he shall think
proper, within fifteen days after such commitment, and to make
particular and minute description of the cloathing, person and bodily
marks, of such runaway. |
If not applied for
within sixty days
thereafter to sell
them. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the owner or
owners, or some
person in his, her or their behalf, shall not apply for such runaway
within the space of sixty days from the time of advertising as aforesaid,
and pay, or secure to be paid, all such legal costs and charges
as have accrued by reason of apprehending, imprisoning and advertising
such servant or slave, it shall be the duty of such sheriff, and |
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