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MD-1861.12 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
128• An Act to amend section thirty-seven of
Article sixty-six of the Code of Public
General Laws entitled Negroes, relating to
the escape of slaves by their being
transported on railroads, steamboats and
other vessels, [pp. 135-136]
134• An Act for the relief of Harriet Nelson
of Worcester county, [p. 146]
238• An Act to prohibit the sale or gift of
intoxicating drinks to Negro Slaves, and to
add an additional section to Article sixty-six
of the Code of Public General Laws, relating
to dealing with Slaves, [pp. 256-257]
245• An Act for the relief of Levin S.H.
Smith of Worcester county, [pp. 263-264]
• Resolutions of the General Assembly of the
State of Maryland. Assented to March 10,
1862. [pp. 367-369, 371-377]
Descriptors: Abolition of slavery; Annapolis,
MD; Anne Arundel County, MD; Arrest; Boats
and ships; Civil War; Courts; District of
Columbia; Federal-State relations; Free Negroes;
Fugitives; Georgetown, DE; Immigration; Im-
prisonment; Inheritance; Liquor laws; Manumis-
sion; Murder; Railroads; Runaways; Sales of
slaves; Secession; Whipping; Worcester County,
MD; Isaac (slave); Nelson, Harriet; Noah
(slave); Randall, Eliza; Randall, John; Reed,
Albert (free negro); Smith, Levin S. H.; Vanzant,
George; Vickers, George
MD-1864
Contains:
15• An Act to aid and encourage enlistments
into the Maryland regiments in service of
the United States, [pp. 20-23]
25• An Act to make valid the bequest of
freedom by the last will and testament of
Edward Wright, late of Dorchester county,
deceased, to certain negroes, [p. 31]
87• An Act entitled an act to repeal section
one hundred and thirty-four and section one
hundred and thirty-five of Article eight of
the Code of Public Local Laws relating to
free negroes in Cecil county, [p. 104]
105• An Act to repeal sections forty-two and
forty-three of Article sixty-six of the Code
of Public General Laws, relating to manu-
mission, and to enact a substitute therefor,
providing for the manumission of slaves,
[pp. 130-131]
206 State Slavery Statutes
109• An Act to amend the thirty-seventh
Article of the Public General Laws by
repealing the first, second, third, fourth and
fifty sections of said Article, relating to the
competency of witnesses, and inserting in
said Article, in lieu of the sections so
repealed, the following sections, relating to
the competency of witnesses and the
examination of parties, [pp. 136-138]
183• An Act to authorize Joshua Dill,
Administrator of Jacob Hill, a free negro,
deceased, to pay over the balance upon
settlement of the final account of the estate
of said deceased, to Richard H. Murdock of
Frederick county, in trust for the use and
benefit of George Hill, son of said Jacob
Hill, who is the slave of the said Murdock.
[pp. 264-265]
332• An Act to authorize the Judge of the
Eighth Judicial Circuit of Maryland to
assess the value of a negro man called Bob
Jones, convicted in the Circuit Court for
Somerset county, as free, and afterwards
ascertained to be a slave, and for the levy, by
the Commissioners of Somerset county, of
such assessment to his master, [p. 450]
373• An Act to extend the time and
provisions of the act for the payment of
bounties to volunteers into the Maryland
regiments in the service of the United States,
[pp. 527-528]
3• A Statement of the Receipts into the
Treasury, for the Year ending September
30th, 1863. [pp. 614-615]
4• A Statement showing the amount
disbursed in the Fiscal Year ended 30th
September 1863; also, the balance remain-
ing in the Treasury the 30th September
1863, applicable to the payment of future
demands, [p. 616]
Descriptors: Appropriations; Baltimore County,
MD; Cecil County, MD; Colored troops;
Dorchester County, MD; Emancipation; Frede-
rick County, MD; Free Negroes; Mulattoes;
Murder; Negroes; Manumission; Somerset
County, MD; Taxation; Trials; Amanda (slave);
Barnes, Cornelius Fletcher; Caroline (slave);
David (slave); Diana (slave); Dill, Joshua;
Harriet (slave); Henna (slave); Henry (slave);
Hill, George (slave); Hill, Jacob (free negro);
Isaac (slave); Jacob (slave); James (slave); John
(slave); Jones, Bob (slave); Littleton (slave);