The Maryland Code. Public General Laws, compiled by O. Scott and H. M'Cullough, Commissioners; adopted by the Legislature of M., January Session, 1860, the Acts of that Session being therewith incorporated. With an Index to each article and section, by H. C. Mackall

Hiram MACCULLOUGH, Henry C. Mackall, Lewis MAYER, Otho SCOTT, MARYLAND, State of

State of Maryland, 1860

[Maryland at the Eve of the Civil War]  Bound in contemporary full leather, with red and gold spine label.  Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. I. Public general laws. Contemporary signature of Richard H. Dorsey, Rockland, Howard Co, Maryland.  Includes related letters and contemporary ephemera from Dorsey.  (Baltimore related bank scripts, post cards, letters, etc) The Dorsey family was a politically prominent family throughout Maryland history. 

Article 66 Negroes. The Article covers the legal rights of slave holders and the penalties for slaves who runaway or commit crimes.