| 1800. |
November.
LAWS of MARYLAND. |
CHAP.
LXXXII.
Default declared
misbehaviour,
&c.
Neglect deemed
misbehaviour. |
payment of said monies and costs; provided that a copy of such account,
signed by the respective
treasurers as aforesaid, and notice of such intended motion, be delivered,
in writing, to such clerk,
or left at his place of abode at least twenty days previous to the sitting
of the term at which such
application shall be intended, and that proof thereof by made to the satisfaction
of the court; and
provided also, that if such clerk shall, in person or by attorney, controvert
the demand, and desires
a jury to be impannelled to ascertain the sum of money really due and payable,
the said court are
empowered and authorised to direct a jury to be immediately impannelled,
and charged to try and
ascertain an issue, whether such clerk by chargeable with and liable to
pay any and what sum or sums
of money to the said state, and the said court, upon such verdict of the
jury, shall and are hereby
empowered to direct judgment to be entered for the penalty of such clerk's
bond, to be released upon
the payment of the sum or sums of money so found due by said verdict, and
costs, upon which
there shall be no writ of error, supersedeas or appeal, and to award execution
thereon as upon all
other cases of judgments had and obtained in said court.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any clerk of
any county, upon whose bond judgment shall be
entered as aforesaid, and execution thereupon issued, shall not satisfy
and pay, or cause to be satisfied
and paid, such judgment and execution to the respective treasurer, or the
agent of the state, for
two successive terms to which the said execution shall be made returnable,
the said default shall be
and the same is hereby declared to be misbehaviour in office within the
meaning of the constitution,
and may be prosecuted as such.
VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any clerk, who
hath received public money before the passage
of this act, shall neglect to pay over the same to the treasurers of the
western and eastern shores respectively,
before the first day of September next, such neglect shall be deemed, taken
and considered,
to be a misbehaviour in office. |
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CHAP. LXXXIII.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Tolls pledged
to be void, &c. |
A Supplemental act to the act to streighten and amend the post-road
from Havre-de-Grace to Baltimore-town.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
tolls pledged, by the act to which
this is a supplement, to the person or persons advancing money thereon
for the purposes therein
mentioned, shall be void when the said monies so advanced, with fifteen
per cent. interest thereon,
shall be repaid them, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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CHAP. LXXXIV.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
County to levy
money, &c. |
A Further Supplement to an act for building a new gaol in Baltimore
county.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
levy court of Baltimore county be
and they are hereby empowered and directed to impose annually, on the assessable
property of
said county, the sum of four thousand dollars, in addition to the sum already
by law directed to be
levied on said county, the said sum to be assessed, together with an allowance
to the collector for
collecting the same, and collected as other county taxes are, and when
collected, the same shall be
paid to the commissioners appointed under the original act to which this
is a supplement, to be by
them applied towards erecting said gaol, or discharging debts contracted
in the erection thereof, which
said additional sum of four thousand dollars current money shall be annually
imposed by the said levy
court, on the assessable property of said county, until the requisite money
for completing said gaol,
and all debts contracted by the means thereof, be fully discharged, satisfied
and paid. |
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CHAP. LXXXV.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Before distress,
an account to
be delivered,
&c. |
An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act for
the establishment
and regulation of the levy courts in the several counties
of
this state.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That before
any personal property shall be
seized, distrained, or sold, by any collector of the county assessment
to enforce the payment
thereof, the said collector shall deliver to the person from whom the same
is demanded, or leave at
his or her last place of abode, a particular account of the species and
amount of property with
which such person is assessed, the rate of tax imposed thereon, and the
amount of such tax. |
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