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CHAP.
LXI.
And for burn-
ing ships, &c.
Courts may
pass judgment,
&c.
Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.
Preamble.
Repository to
be pulled down,
&c.
Preamble.
Commissioners
appointed, &c. |
1799.
NOVEMBER.
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
takers or stealers, and all and every person and persons who shall buy,
take or receive, any stolen
horse, mare, gelding or colt, jack, jenny or mule, knowing the same
to be feloniously taken or stolen,
and shall be thereof convicted by confession or verdict, or will not
upon arraignment answer directly
according to law, or shall wilfully and of malice stand mute, or shall
peremptorily challenge above
twenty of the jury, shall, for every such offence or offences as aforesaid,
suffer death as a felon, with-
out benefit of clergy.
II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons who shall, after the
publication of this act,
maliciously, wilfully and designedly, burn any ship or other vessel,
sloop, shallop or boat, of seventeen
feet keel or upwards, whether laden or empty, and the aiders or abettors
of such offender or offenders,
being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall suffer death as
a felon or felongs, without benefit
of clergy.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the several courts of justice within this
state before whome such
offender shall or may be convicted, may pass such judgment as the law
requires for such crimes, or
they may, in their discretion, adjudge any such offender to serve and
labour, agreeably to the direc-
tions of the act of assembly, entitled, An act for the more effectual
punishment of criminals, passed
at November session, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, (a)
(a) Chapter 57, the title of which is misquoted.
CHAP. LXII.
An Act to authorise and empower the justices of the levy court of
Prince-George's county to pull down the repository of the records
of the register of wills in said county. Lib.
JG. No. 3. fol. 310.
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly, by the justices
of the levy court
of Prince-George's county, that the repository in Marlborough is in
so ruinous a condition
that it is with much difficulty the papers can be kept secure, and
that the spot on which it stands is
the most eligible situation on which the new court-house can be erected,
and that an office will be
contained in the new court-house for the register of wills; and they
have prayed that a law may pass,
authorising the said justices to pull down the repository aforesaid,
fell the materials of the same, and
apply the money towards the erecting of a new gaol; and the prayer
of the petitioners appearing
reasonable and just, therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices
of the levy court of
Prince-George's county are hereby authroised and empowerd to pull down,
or cause to be pulled
down, the repository of the register of wills, fell the materials of
the same, and to apply the money
towards the erecting of a new gaol; and until an office shall be prepared
in the new court-house for
the register of wills of the said county, the justices of the levy
court be authorised and required to
provide a suitable apartment for the preservation of the papers belonging
to the said office, and to
levy the expences thereof in like manner as other county charges.
CHAP. LXIII.
An ACT to lay out and open a public road in the upper part of
Queen-Anne's county. Lib. JG. No. 3. fol.
311.
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Queen-Anne's county, by their petition
to this general as-
sembly have set forth, that they sustain great inconvenience from the
want of a public road
from Richard Tilghman's, the fourth's, gate, standing on the side of
the main road leading from Church
Hill to the Beaver Dams, in the upper part of Queen-Anne's county,
to intersect the main road lead-
ing from Church Hill to Sudler's cross-roads, by Joseph McConikin's,
in said county; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Cornelius
Comegys, Elisha Deford,
Thomas Seegar, Levi Sparks and John Brown Hackett, or any three of
them, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, to survey, lay out and open, at the expence
of the petitioners, a road not
exceeding thirty feet in width, clear of ditches, from the gate of
Richard Tilghman, the fourth,
until it shall intersect the public road leading from Church Hill to
Sudler's cross-roads, by Joseph McCo-
nikin's, in said county; and a plot of the said road, when so surveyed
and laid out, shall be returned to
Queen-Anne's county court, to be recorded, and shall for ever thereafter
be deemed and taken to be a
public highway, and repaired and improved in the same manner as other
public roads in said county.
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