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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes MD-1854
316• An Act to authorise the appointment of
a Commissioner to take testimony to
provide for the recording of copies of wills
and other papers, of which the originals
were lost by the burning of the Court House
in Dorchester County, and to remedy as far
as practicable the evils likely to ensue from
the destruction of the records of said
County. [4 p.]
337• An Act to provide for the General
Valuation and Assessment of Property in
this State. [4 p.]
367• An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act
to appoint a Board of Commissioners for the
Town of Oxford in Talbot county. [3 p.]
12• Resolution relative to the Killing of a
Fugitive Slave in Pennsylvania, by Ar-
chibald G. Ridgely. [1 p.]
Descriptors: Anne Arundel County, MD; Ap-
prentices; Appropriations; Dorchester County,
MD; Fish and fishing; Frederick County, MD;
Free Negroes; Free persons of color; Fugitives;
Incorporation of companies; Liberia; Licenses;
Manumission; Mulattoes; Negroes; Oxford, MD;
Pennsylvania; Queen Anne's County, MD; Sales
of slaves; Somerset County, MD; Talbot County,
MD; Taxation; Whipping; Worcester County,
MD; Baker, John; Cephus, Thomas (slave); Die,
Henny (free negro); Die, John (negro boy); Die,
John (or Jack, free negro); Die, Joseph (negro
boy); Massey, James; Ott, William; Richardson,
John; Ridgely, Archibald G.; Thomas, Rezin
(slave); Thompson, James
MD-1853
Contains:
177• An Act relating to Free Negroes in
Cecil county, [pp. 206-207]
413• An Act to authorise John L. Lankford,
administrator of Peter White, free negro, to
execute a deed of manumission for certain
slaves therein mentioned, [pp. 594-595]
446• An Act to repeal the proviso to the act
of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
chapter twenty-three, entitled a supplement
to an act entitled, an act to prohibit the
owners of vessels and others, from navigat-
ing the same, by and under the sole
command of negroes or mulattoes, passed at
December session eighteen hundred and
thirty-six, chapter one hundred and fifty, as
relates to Anne Arundel county, [p. 651]
Descriptors: Anne Arundel County, MD; Boats
and ships; Cecil County, MD; Free Negroes;
Immigration; Manumission; Mulattoes; Negroes;
Lankford, John L.; White, Peter (free negro)
MD-1854
Contains:
2• An Act to authorise the sheriff to sell
negro Leónidas Snowden, for .the benefit of
Montgomery county, [p. 5]
6• An Act to increase the Jail fees in Queen
Anne's County, [p. 11]
57• An Act to allow George Snyder of
Washington county, to bring into this State,
. a slave for a term of years named therein, [p.
54]
66• An Act to allow Henry Hopkins, free
negro of the State of Missouri to return to
this State, [p. 66]
137• An Act to incorporate the village of
Bladensburg, in Prince George's county,
[pp. 150, 153]
194• An Act for the better protection of
Slaveholders in the several counties therein
mentioned, [pp. 247-249]
208• An Act to provide for the repairs of the
public roads in Dorchester county, [pp.
273-277]
234• An Act making appropriations for the
support of Government for the year ending
on the first day of January eighteen hundred
and fifty-five. [pp. 310-314]
239• An Act authorising the county commis-
sioners of Howard county, to compensate
Henry McDade, for the loss of his slave
killed, while struggling to preserve the peace
of the State, [p. 321]
261• An Act for the relief of William
Seymore, a free negro in Talbot county, [pp.
351-352]
273• An Act to provide a remedy against free
negroes who may hire for a stipulated period
to any person, and quit the service of such
person after entering on the same, and to
provide a remedy against persons who may
employ such free negroes, with the knowl-
edge that they had previously hired to
another, or engaged in another's service,
[pp. 368-370]
State Slavery Statutes 201