aryland,
That after the passage of this act, no free negro or mulatto
shall emigrate to, or settle in this State; and no free negro
or mulatto belonging to any other state, district or
territory, shall come into this State, and therein remain for
the space of ten successive days, whether such free negro or
mulatto intends settling in this State or not, under the
penalty of fifty dollars for each and every week such persons
coming into, shall thereafter remain in this State; the one
half to the informer and the other half to the sheriff for
the use of the county. * * * and any free negro or mulatto
refusing or neglecting to pay said fine or fines, shall be
committed to the jail of the county; and shall be sold by the
sheriff at public sale, for such time as may be necessary to
cover the aforesaid penalty, first giving ten days previous
notice of such sale.

Sec. 2d. And be it enacted, That no person in this State,
shall hereafter hire, employ, or harbor any free negro or
mulatto who shall emigrate or settle in this state, after the
first day of June next, or any free negro or mulatto who
shall come into this state from any other state, district or
territory, and continue in this state for the space of ten
successive days as above, under the penalty of twenty dollars
for every day after the expiration of four days, any such
free negro or mulatto * * * shall be so employed, hired or
harbored, and all fines accruing under this act, * * * one
half thereof to be applied to the informer, and the other
half to the use of the county; and if any negro or mulatto
shall remove from this state and remain without the limits
thereof for a space longer than thirty consecutive days,
unless before leaving the state he deposits with the clerk of
the county in which he resides, a written statement of his
object in so doing, and his intention of returning again, or
unless he shall have been detained by sickness or coercion,
of which he shall bring a certificate, he shall be regarded
as a resident of another state, and be subject, if he return,
to the penalties imposed by the foregoing provisions upon
free negroes and mulattoes of another state, migrating to
this state: Provided that nothing contained in this act shall
prevent any free negro or mulatto from visiting Liberia, and
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