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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes MD-1858
demeanor, or in possession of stolen
property, to disperse disorderly or tumultu-
ous meetings of negroes, to seize guns
illegally held, and to provide a compensa-
tion; also, a reward to all persons who may
arrest and secure a runaway slave, etc. [pp.
296-299]
198• An Act relating to masters of vessels,
sailors, and apprentices, [pp. 322-324]
229• An Act for the relief of Thomas
Warfield and his wife and children, free
negroes of the District of Columbia, [pp.
362-363]
252• An Act to extend the provisions of an
act passed at the January session eighteen
hundred and fifty-four, chapter two hundred
and seventy-three, entitled, "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 knowledge that
they had previously hired to another or
engaged in another's service." [p. 410]
262• An Act to enable William Crane and
others, trustees of the Saratoga Street
African Baptist Church, in Baltimore city, to
execute a deed of certain property therein
mentioned, [pp. 425-426]
271• An Act for the relief of Susan
Smallwood, a free negro woman, of the
District of Columbia, [p. 433]
328• An Act making appropriations for the
support of the Government for the year
ending on the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and fifty eight, [pp. 506-507, 510]
337• An Act for the benefit of Daniel
Hubbard, a free person of color of Caroline
county, [p. 522]
346• An Act granting the leave of the
Legislature to a devise made in the last will
of Peter Turner, free negro, of Cecil county,
to the Trustees of the West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church, of said county, [p.
534]
Descriptors: Hubbard, Daniel (free person f col-
or); Abduction of slaves and free negroes;
African Colonization Society; Anne Arundel
County, MD; Apprentices; Appropriations;
Arrest; Baltimore, MD; Caroline County, MD;
Cecil County, MD; Courts; District of Columbia;
Dorchester County, MD; Enticement; Fraud;
Frederick County, MD; Free Negroes; Fugitives;
Harford County, MD; Hiring of negroes;
Howard County, MD; Imprisonment; Inheri-
tance; Kent County, MD; Manumission; Mont-
gomery County, MD; Mulattoes; New York
State; Persons of color; Police; Religious
organizations; Robbery and theft; Runaways;
Saratoga Street African Baptist Church; Seamen;
Somerset County, MD; Talbot County, MD;
Unlawful assembly; Weapons; West Nottingham
Church; Whipping; Worcester County, MD;
Caroline (slave); Cottman, Arnold (free negro);
Griffith, Thomas J.; Jones, Bernard (free negro);
Jones, Ella (free negro); Jones, Mahala (free
negro woman); Lord, Thomas; Nutwell, George
W.; Pitts, Arnold (free man of color); Polk,
William T. G.; Smallwood, Susan (free negro
woman); Turner, Peter (free negro); Warfield,
Thomas
MD-1858
Contains:
55• An Act to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquors in the city of Annapolis,
or within five miles thereof, to minors and
people of color, [pp. 58-60]
74• An Act to incorporate the Village of
Leonard Town, in Saint Mary's county, [pp.
74, 77-78]
75• An Act to authorise William Johnson, a
free negro, of Calvert county, to dispose of
his real and personal estate by last will and
testament, [p. 82]
146• An Act for the relief of Joshua Brown
of Anne Arundel county, [p. 195]
166• An Act to incorporate the Village of
Port Tobacco in Charles county, [pp. 217,
220-221]
184• An Act to allow George Davis, of Kent
county, Delaware, to work his slaves on his
lands in Cecil county, Maryland, from time
to time. [p. 238]
186• An Act to make valid a bill of sale from
James Deale of Anne Arundel county, to
Franklin Waters, [pp. 239-240]
211• An Act for the relief of Robert Digges.
[p. 286]
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