The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-02-18

lH5 cApcuSoS, W 70 10 IH6 SCHOOL III the
county or city where the party was con-
victed.
INCENDIARY DOCUMENTS.
No. s amends the code that if any free
negro shall knowingly call for, receive, or
have in his possession any abolition book,
handblll, or newspaper, or other part of
any infammatory character, having ten
dency to create discomfort amongst, or stir
up to insurrection, the negroes of the State,
or induce them to abscond, he or she shall,
upon conviction, be sold for life as slave
the informer to receive one half the pro-
ceeds, and the school the other half Any
postmaster in this State knowingly distrib-
uting, delivering or circulating any of said
incendiary documents, shall, on conviction,
be sentenced to the penitentiary for not
less than ten, nor more than twenty years.
No postmaster shall deliver any letter ad-
dressed to free negro, or letter address
ed to white man for free negro, unless
it be first opened by justice of the peace
in the presence of such postmaster. In
case the contents of the letter be objection
able, the justice shall burn it; if unobec.
tionable, he shall SO endorse it for delivery.
All postmasters now in office in this State,
on the 1st of March, to take an oath to
support the constitution of Maryland and
faithfully carry out the provisions of this
act. Every new postmaster is to take
similar oath on entering upon his duties,
and those refusing or neglecting, to be
fined not less than $40, nor more than $100
MANUMIssIoN OF sLAvEs-RELGIoUs MEET
INGs.
No. 8 repeals several portions of the
code, and enacts: No slave shall hereafter
be manumitted to verbal order, last will
and testament, deed of emancipation or
other means. No negro shall preach or
conduct any assemblage for religious pur-
poses, or be present at any religious meet
ing other than regular meetings of the kind
for white persons, and then only in day
time. The offender, if slave, to receive
thirty-nine lashes and be returned home at
an expense of 81 to the master or employ
er, in addition to FIVE cents mileage, to be
paid to the officer making the arrest; if
free, to be sold for one year. All church
es and meeting houses of negroes are to be
sold for the benefit of the white congrega-
ton to which the property so sold belonged
or was attached. In Baltimore City, how
ever, negroes may attend religious meet
ings, conducted by white licensed or Or
dained preacher, or respectable white
person duly authorized by the Orphans
Court. Any person owning, hireing or
having the control of a slave, who shall
permit such slave to go at large, rent land,
bargain or hire out, shall be fined not more
than $1OO, nor less than 25; continuance
OF the offense, after ten days, to subject the
party to prosecution, costs and fine. Here
after no free negro shall come into this
State, and any such leaving shall not re-
turn, on the penalty of being sold as a
slave for life. This prohibition, however,
is not to apply to free negroes going to
Virginia or the District of Columbia and
returning within three days, or when en-
gagged in the employment of any citizen of
this State, travelling out of the limits Of this
State. No free negro hereafter shall keep
any dog, gun or frearm of any kind, or
military weapon, or powder, under penal
ty of forfeiture of such dog, &C., besides
paying costs and receiving not over thirty
nine lashes Slaves to be similarly pun
ished, except they are not to pay costs.
Any slave out after night from his masters
premises, to have pass, and said pass is
not to authorize any ave to go from any
county to Baltimore city or vice versa, ex
cept in the service of the master. This
provision in regard to passes to apply to
free negroes hired or bound to service. No
person shall keep school or other place
of resort for negroes, under penalty of
not over 500 for the first ofense, and fine
and Imprisonment On the lst of May
next, the constables for the counties and
Baltimore city are to take census of all
the free negroes, specifying age, sexes,
names, by whom manumitte6 or whether