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Excerpt from District of Columbia Code, 1940 Edition, Vol. 1: Containing the Laws, General and Permanent in Their Nature, Relating to or in Force in the District of Columbia; Part I, Government of the District; Part II, Civil Procedure; Part III, Probate Law and Procedure; Part IV, Criminal Law and Procedure Fourth, all the laws of the legislature, not only of the State of Maryland, from 1776 to 1800, but the laws of the colonial Maryland government up to the year 1800, together with such acts of Congress as had been passed, or might thereafter be passed, for the District of Columbia, or that were applicable to the District of Columbia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.