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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esquire, Governor.
as is herein before directed for the collection of assessments on the
property of
the inhabitants of the said town; and the said commissioners shall
have power to
make such regulation, from time to time, respecting the keeping of
dogs and
bitches in the said town, as shall be effectual for discovering the
owners thereof,
and for the collection of the said tax, and may authorise and direct
the killing of
any dog or bitch whose owner cannot be ascertained. |
1790.
CHAP.
XXIII. |
CHAP. XXIV.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the draining of a
marsh and branch known by the name of the Long Marsh,
lying
in Queen-Anne's and Caroline counties. |
Passed December
21. |
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that
although considerable
advantage has been derived from the original act to which this
is a supplement, yet, in some instances, it is defective, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That the place of
meeting of the proprietors and directors of the Long Marsh, for the
purposes
mentioned in the said original act, shall be changed from the Nine
Bridges, in
Caroline, to the Beaver Dam Causeway, in Queen-Anne's county. |
Place of meeting
changed. |
III. And be
it enacted, That if, in any case, it shall be necessary for the
directors
to collect the proportion of money due from any delinquent proprietor
by
virtue of the powers vested in them by the sixth section of the said
original act, it
shall be lawful for the said directors to lease or dispose of any upland,
either clear
or in wood, belonging to such proprietor, and adjoining to the marsh,
for the
same term, in the same manner, and under the same restrictions, as
are provided
in the said original act with respect to the marsh; and in case the
marsh land, or
adjoining upland, of any delinquent proprietor, shall be under lease
for one or
more years from the said proprietor to any tenant, it shall and may
be lawful for
the said directors, or any one of them, to raise the proportion of
money due from
such proprietor, together with the legal costs of distress and sale,
by distress and
public sale of any goods and chattels of the said tenant which shall
be found on
the leased premises, of which sale five days notice, excluding the
days of notice
and of sale, shall be given to the said tenant, and the said sale shall
be for current
money: Provided always, that the upland, so to be leased or sold,
shall not exceed
one third part of the upland belonging to any one proprietor, nor shall
the
same be so laid off as to include the dwelling-houses in any of the
said lands;
and provided also, that no distress shall be made on any tenant for
a greater sum
than shall be due from him to his landlord for rent at the time of
the distress, and
that the said tenant shall be allowed to discount the same against
his landlord. |
In case of collection,
directors
may lease,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That each of the directors appointed by virtue of the
said original act, shall be allowed for his services at the rate of
thirty dollars a
year, to be paid by the proprietors of the said month, in proportion
to the quantity
of improved and ditched marsh land held by each of them respectively,
and to
be collected in the same manner as is directed in case of non-payment
of the sum
apportioned by the directors for the purpose of opening, cutting, cleansing
or repairing,
the ditch. |
Directors allowance,
&c. |
CHAP. XXV.
An ACT for annulling the marriage of John Sewell, of Talbot
county, and Eve his wife. |
Passed December
21. |
WHEREAS John Sewell, of Talbot county, by his petition
to this
general assembly hath set forth, that his wife Eve hath been convicted
of adultery and of bearing a mulatto child; and that in consequence
of the said conviction, his said wife and her child were condemned
to
servitude, and sold, agreeably to the act of assembly in such case
made and provided,
and prayed that an act might pass annulling his marriage with his said
wife; and the facts alleged in the sid petition have been proved by
certified copies
from the records of Talbot county court: |
Preamble. |
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