BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
NOVEMBER. 1799.
IV. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That if in the recess of the levy court
any constable of said
town so appointed should be desirous of resigning his appointment,
or in case of death, refusal or
neglect to qualify, any two justices of the county may forthwith appoint
another proper person to
fill such vacancy, who, upon their certificate of such appointment
to him delivered, shall proceed to
act in the same manner as if apppointed by the levy court.
CHAP. VII.
An ACT to empower the justices of the levy court of Charles coun-
ty to assess and levy annually a sum of money for the purpose
therein mentioned.
Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 249.
WHEREAS John Monro, senior, of Charles county, by his petition to this
general assembly
hath set forth, that his son John Monro, junior, is an idiot, and thereby
is rendered unable
to support himself, and that he, from indigent circumstances, and having
a large family, is entirely
unable to contribute in any degree to his maintenance, and praying
that some provision may be made
for the support of his said son; and the facts appearing to this general
assembly to be true,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the Gneral Assembly of Maryland, That the justices
of the levy court of
Charles county, at their levy court, shall have full power and authority,
and they are hereby directed
and required, annually to assess, so long as they shall see cause,
on the assessable property of said
county, a sum not exceeding thirty dollars for any one year; which
said sum, so levied and assessed,
shall be collected as other county charges are, and paid to the said
John Monro, senior, or such
other person as they the said court shall appoint, for the use, support
and maintenance, of the said John Monro, junior.
CHAP. VIII.
An ACT to authorise and empower the levy court of Montgomery
county to assess and levy annually a sum of money for the support
of Ruth Glaze. Lib. JG. No. 3.
fol. 250.
WHEREAS Ruth Glaze, of Montgomery county, by her petition to this general
assembly hath
set forth, that she has for ten years past been confined to her bed,
and has hiterto been
maintained by her only son, who has done the same by teaching school,
but who is at present ren-
dered unable to continue that support, by a white swelling in one of
his knees; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices
of the levy court of
Montgomery county shall be and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
at their levy court an-
nually, so long as they shall see cause, to assess and levy on the
assessable property of said county a
sum of money, not exceeding forty dollars, for the support and maintenance
of the said Ruth Glaze,
and that the same be collected and paid annually by the collector of
the county tax for Montgomery
county to such person as the levy court of said county may direct.
CHAP. IX.
An ACT to revive and aid the proceedings of the orphans court
of Calvert county.
Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 250.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the orphans
court of Calvert county
stood adjourned until Tuesday the twenty-ninth day of October, one
thousand seven hundred
and ninety-nine, and that no one of the justices of said court attended
to call the same according t
adjournment as aforesaid, whereby all process and proceedings in the
said court were discontinued;
for remedy whereof,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all the
judgments, rules, entries,
acts, process and proceedings, depending in the said court on the day
aforesaid, shall be and the same
are hereby revived, and shall be in the same state and condition, to
all intents and purposes, as the
same would have been in if the said court had met on the said twenty-ninth
day of October, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-nin, and teh said judgments, rules,
entries, acts, process and
proceedings, had been duly continued by regular and lawful adjournments
from time to time.
T t t t t 2
III. AND, |
CHAP.
VI.
How a vacancy
is to be filled.
Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.
Preamble.
Justices to levy
money, &c.
Preamble.
Justices to levy
money, &c.
Preamble.
Judgments, &c.
revived, &c. |