therefore, this court has no jurisdiction of the case,
and the writ of error must on that ground be dismissed."

In the case of Spencer _v._ Negro Dennis, (8 Gill's Rep., 321,) the
court say: "Once free, and always free, is the maxim of Maryland law
upon the subject. Freedom having once vested, by no compact between
the master and the liberated slave, nor by any condition subsequent,
attached by the master to the gift of freedom, can a state of slavery
be reproduced."

In Hunter _v._ Bulcher [Transcriber's Note: Fulcher], (1 Leigh, 172:)

"By a statute of Maryland of 1796, all slaves brought into that State
to reside are declared free; a Virginian-born slave is carried by his
master to Maryland; the master settled there, and keeps the slave
there in bondage for twelve years, the statute in force all the time;
then he brings him as a slave to Virginia, and sells him there.
Adjudged, in an action brought by the man against the purchaser, that
he is free."

Judge Kerr, in the case, says:

"Agreeing, as I do, with the general view taken in this case by my
brother Green, I would not add a word, but to mark the exact extent to
which I mean to go. The law of Maryland having enacted that slaves
carried into that State for sale or to reside shall be free, and the
owner of the slave here having carried him to Maryland, and
voluntarily submitting himself and the slave to that law, it governs
the case."

In every decision of a slave case prior to that of Dred Scott _v._
Emerson, the Supreme Court of Missouri considered it as turning upon
the Constitution of Illinois, the ordinance of 1787, or the Missouri
compromise act of 1820. The court treated these acts as in force, and
held itself bound to execute them, by declaring the slave to be free
who had acquired a domicil under them with the consent of his master.

The late decision reversed this whole line of adjudication, and held
that neither the Constitution and laws of the States, nor acts of
Congress in relation to Territories, could be judicially noticed by
the Supreme Court of Missouri. This is believed to be in conflict with
the decisions of all the courts in the Southern States, with some
exceptions of recent cases.

In Marie Louise _v._ Morat et al., (9 Louisiana Rep., 475,)
[Transcriber's Note: correct citation is Louise v. Marot, 9 La. 473]
it was held, where a slave having been taken to the kingdom of France
or other country by the owner, where slavery is not t