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BENJAMIN OGLE, Esquire, Governor.
November.
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IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of the
said county, at their next county court, shall lay
the damages so assessed before the said court, and the justices of
the said court shall levy upon the
assessable property of the said county the damages so adjudged to be
sustained by the persons through
whose lands the road as aforesaid shall pass, and which sum, when collected,
shall be paid to the person
or persons sustaining such damages by the collector of the said county. |
CHAP.
XXVI.
Damages to be
laid before the
court, &c. |
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CHAP. XXVII.
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An ACT to correct a mistake in the beginning of Lot No. three
thousand nine hundred and eighty-three of the
lands lying westward
of Fort Cumberland.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition
of Christian Mussleman,
that a patent has been granted to him for a lot of land lying westward
of Fort Cumberland,
distinguished on the plot be lot No. three thousand nine hundred and
eighty-three, and that the surveyor,
in making a return of the courses of the said lot, has represented
the same to begin at the
beginning of Lot No. three thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight,
instead of lot No. three thousand
seven hundred and fifty-eight, the true beginning of the said lot No.
three thousand nine hundred
and eighty-three; and the facts stated in the said petition appearing
to be true,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the register of the land-office for
the western shore be and he is hereby authorised, empowered and directed,
to correct the mistake
made by the surveyor in his return of the courses of the said lot No.
three thousand nine hundred
and eighty-three, by altering the said return, and also to correct
the patent for, and record of, the
same, so as to make the said lot begin at the beginning of lot No.
three thousand seven hundred and
fifty-eight, instead of lot No. three thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight,
as it now stands; provided,
that nothing herein contained shall affect the right of any other person. |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Mistake to be
corrected, &c. |
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CHAP. XXVIII.
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A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to establish a bank, and
incorporate the subscribers thereto.
WHEREAS it appears by the act of incorporation of the bank, commonly
called the Bank
of Baltimore, that not more than two thirds of the directors in office
shall be eligible as directors
for the ensuing year, which is found on practice to be very inconvenient;
therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That so much of the original act to which
this is a supplement as requires that not more than two thirds of the directors
in office shall be eligible
as directors for the ensuing year shall be and is hereby repealed.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall have force or effect until the consent
of the stockholders in the said bank shall be given at a general meeting
of the said corporation,
and transmitted, under their corporate seal, signed by the president of
said bank, to the clerk of the
general court of the western shore, and to be by him recorded in the records
of said court. |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Part of an act
repealed.
Not to have
force, &c. |
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CHAP. XXIX.
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An ACT for the relief of Thomas McCutchen, of Cæcil county.
WHEREAS Thomas McCutchen, of Cæcil county, emigrated to, and
settled in, this state, and
since his emigration and settlement as aforesaid has acquired real property
therein, and his
title to such property, from his not having become naturalized agreeably
to the laws of the United
States, may be called in question, to his great detriment and injury; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the title to the real property, lawfully
and fairly acquired by the aforesaid Thomas McCutchen, whether such title
be derived by gift,
grant, purchase or devise, he and the same is hereby as amply and as fully
vested in the person aforesaid,
to all intents and purposes, as if he had been naturalized agreeably to
said laws; provided
always, that nothing in this act contained shall in any manner defeat or
affect any right, title or
claim, to the said property, or any part thereof, acquired or prosecuted
by any person or persons
whatever before the passage of this act; and provided also, that unless
the said Thomas McCutchen
shall, on or before the first day of June next, proceed according to law
to make himself a citizen of
the United States, this act shall have no effect to confirm his title to
the property above mentioned, |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Title vested,
&c. |
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