Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800. |
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act fort the relief of sundry
insolvent
debtors.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in
case any judge, associate justice or
justice of the peace, shall certify to the chancellor, by writing under
his hand and seal, that
any person whose name is mentioned in the said act did, on a certain day,
which shall be subsequent
to the said persons application to the chancellor for the benefit of
the said act, before him, the said
judge or justice, take repeat and subscribe, the oath or affirmation prescribed
by the second section
of the aforesaid act for delivering up his property, and shall also return
to the chancellor the oath or
affirmation so taken, repeated and subscribed, the chancellor shall thereupon
have authority, at his
discretion, and under special circumstances rendering it impracticable
or greatly inconvenient for the
said insolvent person to appear before the chancellor on the day appointed
for his appearance, to
proceed in the same manner as if the said person had appeared before the
chancellor on the said day
appointed, and had taken, in the presence of his creditors, the said oath
or affirmation; but nothing
in this act contained shall be construed so as to deprive the creditors
of any insolvent debtor of the
right of appearing before the chancellor on the said day appointed, and
he recommending a trustee
for their benefit, or to dispense with the said insolvents presence before
the chancellor to answer any
interrogatories proposed by his creditors, agreeably to the provisions
of the aforesaid original act,
except that of allowing an insolvent, under special circumstances, at the
chancellor's discretion, to
take the oath or affirmation for delivering up his property before a judge
or justice as aforesaid instead
of taking the same before the chancellor, in the presence of his creditors. |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Commissioners
appointed, &c.
Who may issue
summonses,
&c.
Proprietors to
provide boundaries,
&c. |
An ACT to resurvey and lay out anew Princess-Anne-town, in Somerset
county, and for other purposes.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the plot of
the said town, made by
virtue of an act of assembly passed for the purpose of laying out the same,
cannot be found,
and the boundaries and limits of the streets, lanes and alleys, as well
as many of the lots thereof,
are unknown, whereby the titles of the proprietors thereof are precarious
and uncertain, and it is
prayed that the same may be laid out anew, which appears to this general
assembly to be reasonable
and proper;
II. BE IT ENACTED,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Peter Waters, captain
William
Cottman, John Stewart, Samuel Smith and John Dashiell, senior, be and they
are hereby appointed
commissioners, who shall, on or before the first day of May, eighteen hundred
and one, meet at
Princess-Anne-town aforesaid, and having so met, the said commissioners,
or any three of them,
shall have full and ample power and authority to direct the surveyor of
Somerset county, or any other
person whom they shall think proper to appoint, to survey the said town,
and the several lots therein,
and make out an exact plot thereof, and shall ascertain and limit the extent
of the lots, streets,
lanes and alleys thereof, most agreeably to their original location, according
to the best evidence that
can be obtained, with power to adjourn from day to day until they have
completed the said location.
III. BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or any three of them, are hereby authorised
and required, having first given twenty days notice of the time and place
of their meeting, by public
advertisement, to issue summonses for such person or persons as may be
applied for by any of the
proprietors aforesaid, which said witnesses are hereby required to attend,
under the penalty of five
dollars for every neglect or refusal, and to examine them upon their corporal
oath, or affirmation,
as the case may be, touching and concerning their knowledge of the
bounds, limits and extent, of
any of the lots, streets, lanes and alleys of the said town, and to establish
the same accordingly;
and each witness attending under any summons issued as aforesaid shall
be entitled to seven shillings
and six-pence for every day he shall so attend.
IV. BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty
of the proprietors of the lots, or any part of a
lot, in the said town, to provide boundary posts or stones, and to have
them marked and set up at
the termination of the line or lines of their respective lots, in the presence
of the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, which shall thereafter be deemed and taken to be
the true bounds of the said
lots, or any of them. |
