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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.
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of such tract or tracts of land, lot or lots of land, and the amount
of the taxes thereon respectively
due, together with the name or names of the person or persons respectively
chargeable with the
payment of the same." In the first line of the second section strike
out the word "refuse" and insert
"omit." In the second line of the second section, after the word
"list," insert the word "as."
In the same line strike out from the word "aforesaid" to the word "said,"
and insert " upon being
thereto directed in writing by the." In the third line of the second
section, after the word "every"
insert the word "such." In the fourth line of the second section,
after the word "pay" insert "the
sum of." In the same line, after the word "be" insert " sued for
and." Strike out from the word
"expressing" in the fifth line of the second page to the end of the section,
and insert " the name or
names of such tract or tracts of land, or the number or numbers of
such lot or lots of land, and
the amount of the taxes thereon respectively due, together with the
name or names of the person
or persons respectively chargeable for the same, to be inserted at least
once per week for an
during eight weeks in the Baltimore Telegraphe, the Annapolis, Easton,
George-town, and one
of the Frederick-town news-papers, notifying, that unless the county
charges due on the lands as
aforesaid shall be paid to the collector of Allegany county within
the space of one hundred days
after the publication of the notice aforesaid is completed, the land
so charged as aforesaid, or such
part thereof as may be necessary to raise the sum due thereon, shall be
sold to the highest bidder, for
the payment of the same." Strike out from the word "county" in the
fifth line of the fourth
section to the end of the said section, and insert " after thirty days
previous notice at the court-house
door, and at the most public places in the county, such tract or tracts
of land, or such lot or
lots of land, or such part or parcels thereof as may be sufficient
to discharge the taxes thereon due,
to sell to the highest bidder, and the same, when sold, to transfer by
deed or bargain and sale to the
purchaser thereof; provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any
manner be construed to authorise
or empower the said collector to sell more land than may prove sufficient
to discharge the
taxes and legal charges thereon due." Strike out from the beginning
of the fifth section to the
word "and" in the first line of the proviso. Strike out from the
word "soldiers" in the last line
of the third page to the end of the section, and insert " and provided
nothing herein contained shall
affect the rights of persons under impediments of infancy, coverture, insanity
of mind, or actual
imprisonment, or of citizens of the United States beyond seas, until
twelve months after the removal
of such disabilities." At the end of the bill add the following clause:
" And be it enacted,
That this act shall continue and be in force for and during the term of
three years, and until the
end of the next session of assembly that may happen thereafter."
The clerk of the house of delegates delivers to the
clerk of the senate a bill, entitled, An act to
dispose of Eden school, in Somerset county, and to apply the money
to the purposes therein mentioned,
thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, November 21, 1796:
Read the first time and
" ordered to lie on the table.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 1, 1796: Read the second time
and will pass.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk."
Which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
The bill, entitled, An act for recording the deed therein
mentioned, was read the second time and
will not pass.
The bill, entitled, An act for the relief of the
persons composing the eighth regiment of the militia
of this state, was read the second time and will not pass.
The resolution in favour of Valentine Lynn, was read
the second time and dissented from.
The bill, entitled, an act for the relief of Christian
Weaver, was read the second time and will pass.
The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 10 o'clock.
F R I D
A Y, December 2, 1796.
THE senate met. Present the same members as
on yesterday, except the honourable John S.
Purnell, Esquire, who is indisposed. The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
The clerk of the house of delegates delivers to the
clerk of the senate the following resolution:
By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 2, 1796.
RESOLVED, That John Leatherbury having paid the whole
balance of principal and interest of
six per cent. on the sums due from him as sheriff for fines and forfeitures,
and collector of the fund
tax for Somerset county, be and he is hereby released from the payment
of the nine per cent. incurred
in consequence of his non-payment of the principal at the time required
by law.
By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk.
Which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
The resolution in favour of Alexander Rigdon, was read
the second time and dissented from, and,
together with the following message, bills and resolution,
By the SENATE, December 2, 1796.
GENTLEMEN,
WE have dissented from your resolution in favour
of Alexander Rigdon. In this case we see no
necessity for opening accounts in the auditor's books which have been regularly
closed. We will
readily concur in any resolution which you may please to originate, enabling
the treasurer to pay
over to the said Alexander Rigdon the balance of money appearing due him
upon the books in the
treasury.
By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
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