This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1864 |
| Citation: | 20 Md. 439 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Dealing with state and local laws, the Board of commissioners arguing that there should be internal police regulations in the counties that differ within the state. "some manufacturing, others chiefly agricultural; some sparsely populated, others densely; so again the difference in the agricultural products, some raised wholly by slave labor, give rise to, or require, internal police regulations useless in otehr counties." Dismissing the petition and holding that this duty to levy for the sum is unconstitutional. |
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| Full name: | The Board of Commissioners of Public Schools of Allegany County, vs. The County Commissioners of Allegany County |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |