| 1807.
CHAP. 165.
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CLXV.
An Act to punish Crimes, Offences and Misdemeanors, committed on
the Waters of the Chesapeake Bay within the territorial
jurisdiction
of the State of Maryland, and for other purposes.
Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 513.
See 1704, ch. 92; 1789, ch. 22; and November 1809, ch. 139, s. 19. |
Persons committing
offences upon
the waters of the
Chesapeake, may
be tried in the
county where they
may be apprehended. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
any person or persons who shall hereafter commit any crime, offence
or misdemeanor, upon the waters of the bay of Chesapeake.
and within the territorial limits of this state, and without the body
of any county of the state, and all aiders, abetters, comforters and
accessories thereof and thereto, may be indicted, arraigned and
tried, in the county court of the county in which he, she or they, may
be first
brought. |
Prosecutions instituted
under
this act may be
removed into adjoining
county. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any prosecutions
hereafter to be
instituted, under and by virtue of this law, may be removed after
the indictment being found, the person or persons against whom
the said indictment shall be found, suggesting, in writing, supported
by affidavit or other proper evidence, that a fair and impartial
trial cannot be had in such court where such indictment is found,
that then it shall be lawful for the said court, in their discretion, ot
order and direct the record of the proceedings in the said prosecution
to be transmitted to the judges of the next adjoining county
court, before whom the same shall be heard and determined in the
same manner as if such prosecution had been originally instituted
therein. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CLXVI.
An Act annulling the Marriage of James Barnes and Mable Barnes,
of Talbot County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 514. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808.
* 1804, ch. 63. |
CHAP. CLXVII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act to incorporate a Company
for erecting a Bridge over Chester River, at Chester-Town.
Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 514. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS Richard Tilghman, 4th, Richard E. Harrison
and
William B. Hackett, heretofore appointed commissioners to erect a
bridge over Chester river, are dead; therefore, |
New commissioners
appointed. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Samuel Betz, Thomas S. Burgess and Richard Frisby, be appointed
commissioners in their stead, and that in case of the death or
resignation of any commissioner heretofore or hereby appointed,
the place of the said commissioners may be filled, by ballot, by the
board of commissioners, or a majority of them. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CLXVIII.
An Act to fix and establish the Pay of the Adjutant-General and
Brigade
Inspectors. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 514.
This act repealed by 1816, ch. 148. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CLXIX.
An Act to establish a Board of Agriculture for the Counties therein
mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 515. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS societies for the promotion of agricultural
and domestic
manufactures would, by exciting a spirit of emulation, and by |
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