e apprehension of runaway slaves, and to pay
other expenses incident to the execution of this law, together
with such other purposes as may hereafter be determined on by
the General Assembly.

(17.) This act shall be in force from its passage.

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ESCAPING IN A CHEST.

$150 REWARD. Ran away from the subscriber, on Sunday night, 27th
inst., my NEGRO GIRL, Lear Green, about 18 years of age, black
complexion, round-featured, good-looking and ordinary size; she
had on and with her when she left, a tan-colored silk bonnet, a
dark plaid silk dress, a light mouslin delaine, also one watered
silk cape and one tan colored cape. I have reason to be
confident that she was persuaded off by a negro man named Wm.
Adams, black, quick spoken, 5 feet 10 inches high, a large scar
on one side of his face, running down in a ridge by the corner
of his mouth, about 4 inches long, barber by trade, but works
mostly about taverns, opening oysters, &c. He has been missing
about a week; he had been heard to say he was going to marry the
above girl and ship to New York, where it is said his mother
resides. The above reward will be paid if said girl is taken out
of the State of Maryland and delivered to me; or fifty dollars
if taken in the State of Maryland.

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JAMES NOBLE,

m26-3t.

No. 153 Broadway, Baltimore.

Lear Green, so particularly advertised in the "Baltimore Sun" by "James
Noble," won for herself a strong claim to a high place among the heroic
women of the nineteenth century. In regard to description and age the
advertisement is tolerably accurate, although her master might have
added, that her countenance was one of peculiar modesty and grace.
Instead of being "black," she was of a "dark-brown color." Of her
bondage she made the following statement: She was owned by "James Noble,
a Butter Dealer" of Baltimore. He fell heir to Lear by the will of his
wife's mother, Mrs. Rachel Howard, by whom she had previously been
owned. Lear was but a mere child when she came into the hands of Noble's
family. She, therefore, remembered but little of her old mistress. Her
young mistress, however, had made a lasting impression upon her mind;
for she was very exacting and oppressive in regard to the tasks she was
daily in the habit of laying upon Lear's shoulders, with no dispos