Smith, Levin Belt, and Richard Stringer, junior, of Baltimore county,
John Vickers, Jacob
Handy, Willliam Warren, Charles Baker, John Colston, Andrew Price and Robins
Chamberlaine,
of Talbot county, William Bozman, Thomas White and John Howard, of Somerset
county, Robert
Green and Thomas Stanford, of Dorchester county, James Porter, of Cæcil
county, Walter W.
Harwood, Benjamin Boyd, Patrick Sim, John Wirsing, Ignatius Boone, Archibald
S. Clarke, James
Alexander Magruder, Benoni Hamilton Wade, David Young and William Sprigg
Bowie, of Prince-George's
county, Gilbert Murdock, John Wilmot and Thomas Edgar, of the city of Annapolis,
William Mullen, Philemon C. Blake, John Kearnes and Joseph Everitt, of
Queen-Anne's county,
Ralph Briscoe, Benjamin McCoy, John McMunn, Josias Clements, Edward
Stevenson and Joshua
Stevenson, of Frederick county, William McComas, Archibald Robinson, James
St. Clair, Nathaniel
Harpley, Robert Nesbitt and Thomas Taylor, of Harford county, Thomas S.
Loveday, Corbin Lee,
William Boone and Arthur Traverse, of Caroline county, Howes Goldsborough,
William B. Magruder,
Thomas L. Washington, Victer Lavancey, John G. Konecke, Frederick Kramer,
Robert
Morton, Jacob Righter, Richard Gittings, Lambert Smith, David Stewart,
Lendrum Holmes, John
Holmes. Lloyd Buchanan, Henry Worthington, Henry Courtenay, Lloyd Buchanan
and Henry
Courtenay, David Stewart, David C. Stewart, and John Stewart, William R.
Smith, William Tull,
William, Duncan, Thorowgood Smith, Henry Troupe, Seth Andrews, Adam
Gantz, James McCormick,
George Deel, William Vance, William Vanwyck, John C. Luttig and John C.
Meyer, Charles
Halsey, Richard Ratien and Nicholas Konecke, Herman Conrod Dwerghagen,
Herman Conrod
Dwerghagen and Anthony Groverman, John Burke, Adrian Valck and Christian
Mayer, Alexander
Coulter, William Messersmith, Roger Robbins, William Shanks, John William
Delaney, Jonathan
Hudson, Stephen Zacharie, John Hackett and Alexander Grant, Archibald Campbell,
Thorowgood
Smith, Lambert Smith, Peter A. Volckman, Joseph Calman and Louis Du Bourg,
George Liggitt,
George W. Murray, Henry Molier, John Starck, James, Law, William Smith,
James Curtis, Francis
Brandt, William Paine, Theodocius James Hamilton, William Cook and John
Atkins Burford,
of the city of Baltimore, Alexander Kennedy, Amos Pierpoint and Peter Burrell,
of Washington
county, John Pringle, Charles Wayman and Thomas J. Beatty, of Montgomery
county, John Neptune,
Thomas Stewart, Levy Hilleary, Peter Lawdermilk, Samuel Lawdermilk and
John Bridenhart,
of Allegany county, and Samuel Boots, of the city of Washington, by their
petitions to this
general assembly have set forth, that by reason of many misfortunes they
are unable wholly to satisfy
their creditors, and have prayed, that they may be discharged, upon their
delivering up all their
property for the use of their creditors; and the prayer of the said petitioners
being found reasonable;
therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That on application of either of the said
debtors to the chancellor, by petition in writing, offering to deliver
to the use of his creditors all
his property, real, personal or mixed, to which he is any way entitled,
a schedule whereof, (on
oath, or affirmation, as the case may require,) together with a list of
the creditors of the person so
applying, on oath or affirmation, as far as he can ascertain them, shall
be annexed to such petition,
the chancellor shall direct personal notice of such application to be given
to the creditors, or
to as many of them, as he may think proper, or their agents or attornies,
and direct notice of such
application to be inserted in some one of the public news-papers of the
cities of Washington, Baltimore
and Philadelphia, for such time as he may think proper, which, in case
of there being a creditor
or creditors beyond sea, shall not be less than six months, and in case
of there being a creditor
or creditors out of this state, but within the United States, shall
not be less than sixty days, and on
their appearance, or neglect to appear on notice, at the time or times
and place appointed, the
chancellor shall administer to the petitioning debtor the following oath,
or affirmation, as the
case may require: " I, A. B. do swear, or solemnly, sincerely and
truly declare and affirm,
" that I will deliver up, convey and transfer, to my creditors, in such
manner as the chancellor
" shall direct, all my property that I have, or claim any title to or interest
in, at this time, and all
" debts, rights and claims, which I have, or am any way entitled to, in
possession, remainder or
" reversion, and that I have not, directly or indirectly, at any time,
sold, conveyed, lessened or
" disposed of, for the use or benefit of any person or persons, or intrusted,
any part of my money, or
" other property, debts, rights or claims, with intent to defraud my creditors,
or any of them, or to
" secure the same to receive or expect any profit, benefit or advantage,
thereby;" and the chancellor
shall thereupon name such person as a majority of the creditors in value,
their agents or
attornies, then present, shall recommend, to be a trustee for the benefit
of the creditors of the
petitioning debtor, or in case of the non-attendance of the creditors,
or of their not making a recommendation,
the chancellor shall name such person as he shall think proper, to be a
trustee as
aforesaid. |
CHAP.
XLIV.
Chancellor, on
application, to
direct notice,
&c. |
