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November.
LAWS of MARYLAND. |
CHAP.
LI.
Court to levy
money, &c.
Commissioners
allowance. |
IV. AND, whereas the sum of money so as aforesaid
levied and collected may be insufficient for
the purposes for which it was intended; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That
the levy court of the
county aforesaid shall, upon application of the said commissioners, or
a majority of them, levy such
further sum on the assessable property of said county, not exceeding six
hundred pounds, as by the
said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be required, provided
such application be made to
the levy court on or before the first Monday in June, in the year eighteen
hundred and two.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid shall be allowed such compensation
for their services as to the levy court shall seem reasonable, not
exceeding two dollars per day to
each of the said commissioners. |
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CHAP. LII.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Securities released,
&c. |
An ACT for the relief of William McMahan, and others, securities
of Robert Sinclair, late sheriff of Allegany county,
WHEREAS William McMahan, Thomas Cresap, James Scott, Charles Frederick
Broadhag,
John Conrod Beatty, George Thistle, Ninian Cockran, George Dent, Thomas
Stewart, John
Simpkins and James Cresap, of Michael, by their petition to this general
assembly have set forth,
that they were securities for Robert Sinclair, late sheriff of Allegany
county, and that the said
Robert Sinclair failed in making payment to the treasury of the monies
to have been by him collected,
by which failure the said securities have become liable to the payment
of nine per cent.
interest on the balances due; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That William McMahan, Thomas Cresap,
James Scott, Charles Frederick Broadhag, John Conrod Beatty, George Thistle,
Ninian Cockran,
George Dent, Thomas Stewart, John Simpkins and James Cresap, of Michael,
securities of
Robert Sinclair, late sheriff of Allegany county, be released from the
payment of the nine per cent.
imposed by law for the non-payment of monies due from said Sinclair,
on their paying the sum
actually due, together with six per cent. interest thereon from
the time it became due, on or before the
first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and two, and that there
be a stay of execution upon
the several judgments that are or may be obtained against any of the said
securities, at the suit of
the state of Maryland, until failure of payment. |
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CHAP. LIII.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
J. Bowdle to
collect, &c.
Proviso. |
An ACT authorising James Bowdle, late collector of Talbot county,
to complete his collections.
WHEREAS James Bowdle, late collector of Talbot county, hath set forth
by his petition to
this general assembly, that there is still due to him, as collector for
the year seventeen hundred
and ninety-nine, a considerable sum of money, which he has been unable
to collect, owing to
severe indisposition, and prays that a longer time may be allowed him to
complete the collection of
the same;
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the said James Bowdle be and he
is hereby authorised to collect all balances due him, as collector for
the year seventeen hundred and
ninety-nine, at any time before the first day of September next, in the
same manner as he could or
might have done whilst he was collector, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
III. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That
the said James Bowdle, before he proceeds
to execute or distrain the property of any person or persons for taxes,
shall, at least thirty days before
such execution or distress, deliver to the person chargeable with the same
an account, written
in words at full length, of the taxes demanded of him, her or them, with
an affidavit annexed to
the same, that he hath not, to the best of his knowledge, received any
part thereof, nor any thing
in security or satisfaction for the same, more than the credits given;
and provided also, that the
said James Bowdle, before he derives any benefit from or under this act,
shall lodge his collector's
books in the clerk's office of Talbot county court, to be there open to
the inspection of all persons
interested in the same. |
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