Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.
Preamble.
Justices to levy
money, &c.
Preamble.
Certain goods
may be sold,
&c.
Road declared
public, &c.
* 1798, ch. 115.
An act con-
firmed.
* 1786, ch. 45.
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1799. NOVEMBER.
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XLV.
An ACT to authorise and empower the levy court of Caecil county
to assess and levy annually a sum of money for the support of
John
Maloy. Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 284.
WHEREAS John Maloy, of Caecil county, by his petition to this general
assembly hath set
forth, that he is deprived of the use of his limbs by a stroke of the
palsy, and has no other
means of subsistence but what he receives from the labour of an aged
and indigent mother, and prays
an act may pass to enable her to provide for his future maintenance
out of the poor-house; and the
facts stated in said petition appearing to be true, therfore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices
of Casecil county levy
court shall be and are hereby directed and empowered, at their levy
court annually, so long as they
shall see cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property of said
county a sum of money, not exceed-
ing forty dollars, for the support and maintenance of said John Maloy,
and that the same be collected
annually by the collector or collectors of Caecil county, and paid
to such person as the levy court of
said county shall or may direct.
CHAP. XLVI.
An ACT to explain the law respecting hawkers and pedlers.
Lib.
JG. No. 3. fol. 284.
WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether persons have a right to take goods,
manufactured by
themselves or others within this state, from place to place for sale
without licence being first
had and obtained for that purpose,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That any
person or persons shall have full
power and authority to take any dry goods, wares or merchandise, manufactured
within this state, to
any part of the state for sale, and may there sell, barter or dispose
of the same, without any licence
for that purpose.
CHAP. XLVII.
An ACT declaring a road leading to a fork of Conowago road, in
Baltimore county, a public highway.
Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 285.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all that road
in Baltimore county, be-
ginning at a stone marked J. P. fixed on the west side of the Conowago
road, on the land of
John Price, and running thence to a stone marked A, thence south, seventy-six
degrees west, one
hundred perches, thence north, eighty-five degrees west, to a stone
marked T. M. A. P. and running thence west to the public road, being a
fork of Conowago road, shall be and is hereby declared a
public highway, and to be kept in repair as the other highways are
in said county.
CHAP. XLVIII.
An ACT to confirm an act, * entitled, An act to alter, abolish and
repeal, certain parts of the constitution and form of government
of this state as therein mentioned, Lib. JG.
No. 3. fol. 285.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act passed
at November session, se-
venteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled, An act to alter, abolish
and repeal, certain parts
of the constitution and form of government of this state as are therein
mentioned, shall be and the
same is hereby confirmed.
CHAP. XLIX.
A Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act to direct descents.
Lib.
JG. No. 3. fol. 285.
WHEREAS by an act of the general assembly, passed at November session,
one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-six, entitled, An act to direct descents, the county
courts, or the chan-
cellor, as the case may be, are authorised to appoint commissioners,
either to divide, or eventually
to
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