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Slaves, Western Maryland

Reassessment of Slaves as property, 1852

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An Important Bill,

REASSESSMENT OF THE PROPERTY IN THE STATE.—We are indebted says the Baltimore Sun, to Messrs. Danels and Davis, of the House of Delegates, for a copy of a bill occupying twenty-six pages, providing for the reassessment of all the real and personal property in Maryland, which has been reported by Mr. Wyse, chairman of the committee on ways and means.

Legal actions of replevin, 1834

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BY AUTHORITY.

BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, Annapolis, March 15th, 1834

ORDERED, That the Clerk of the Council cause to be published in two Newspapers in the city of Baltimore, in two Newspapers in the city of Annapolis, in two Newspapers in each County where there are two papers published, and in one paper in each County where but one paper is published, the act entitled, An act making it penal to sell a certain description of property under certain circumstances."

COUNCIL CHAMBER
Annapolis, March 20th, 1834

Wanting to go to Liberia, 1854

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Got Enough Of It.

We learn from the Mail that “the negroes manumitted by a gentleman of Jefferson Co., Va., some forty in number, whose passage through this place on their way to Chambersburg, Pa., was the cause of remark, have gotten tired of their Pennsylvania acquaintances and returned to their former home — with the view of going to Liberia.”       

Free black volunteering in Clearspring, 1863

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Volunteering OF Colored Men

—We understand that some seventy or eighty free colored men have enlisted in the United States service in the Clearspring District, and are awaiting transportation to Baltimore. It is now said that the County will receive credit on the draft for its volunteers, which, if true, will greatly diminish its quota.— Col. J. P. Crenger in a letter to the Frederick Examiner, says upon the authority of the Secretary of War that all men recruited in the counties will be credited accordingly.