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JOHN H. STONE, Esquire, Governor.
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1796. |
said Christian Weaver was ignorant of the said circumstance until shortly
before
the twenty-sixth day of May, seventeen hundred and ninety-six, on which
day
an escheat warrant was taken out by the said Christian Weaver to affect
and secure
his title in the said land; and the general assembly having heretofore,
in
similar cases, released that part of the valuation to which the state
is by law entitled;
therefore,
II. BE it enacted,
by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said deed
from Richard Allen to Christian Weaver, bearing date as aforesaid,
be and is
hereby confirmed to all intents and purposes whatever, as fully as
if the said
Allen, at the time of making thereof, had been a naturalized citizen
of the state
aforesaid, and that the said Christian Weaver be released from the
payments of
any sum or sums of money which have become due to the said state on
account
of its portion of the valuation of the said property, the said Christian
Weaver
paying nevertheless all fees which have or may become due to the register
of the
land-office, on account of the said escheat warrant; provided always,
that
nothing in this act shall be taken or construed to affect the right
or rights of any
person or persons claiming title in the premises above mentioned. |
CHAP.
IV.
Deed confirmed,
&c. |
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CHAP. V.
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An act to confirm certain proceedings of the levy court of
Cæcil county, and to enable said court to
lay further taxes for
the support of the poor of said county. |
Passed December
30. |
WHEREAS it is represented by the levy court and trustees of the poor
of Cæcil county, that the sums of money heretofore raised in
said
county for the support of the poor have been insufficient;
II. BE it enacted,
by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court
of said county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to levy
annually
on the assessable property of said county, such sum of money as they
shall find
necessary for the support of the poor thereof, not exceeding five shillings
current
money on every hundred pounds of property as aforesaid in said county,
together
with the collector's commission of six per cent. for collecting
the same.
III. And,
whereas
it appears by the representation of said levy court, that in
the tax laid for the present year they have levied on said county eight
hundred
pounds beyond the sum which by law they were authorised to levy, the unavoidable
expenditures for the support of the poor having largely exceeded the appropriation
therefor; BE it enacted, That the
levy made by said court as aforesaid
be and the same is hereby confirmed, and that the collector of said county
be and is hereby authorised and empowered to collect the same in the same
manner
as he is authorised to collect other county taxes, and that all proceedings
therein be and are made valid and confirmed, in the same manner as if the
said
levy court had been by law previously authorised to levy a tax on said
county for
the said sum of money. |
Preamble.
Court to levy
money, &c.
Levy confirmed,
&c. |
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CHAP. VI.
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A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act relative to the proceedings
in the
court of chancery, and in the land-office. |
Passed December
30. |
WHEREAS by the act to which this is a supplement the register of
the land-office for the western shore is prevented from receiving in the
land-office any original certificate of survey or resurvey under warrant,
unless the same had passed the examiner-general, and returned to the land
office before the first day of July, seventeen hundred and ninety-six,
or within
eighteen months from the date of the warrant: And whereas many of
the citizens
of the eastern shore of this state, from want of information of the said
law, have omitted to comply with the directions thereof, by not returning
their
certificates to the land-office of the western shore within the time
limitted by
said law, but are now ready and desirous to compound on certificates under
the
above circumstances, and will be materially injured unless they are permitted
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Preamble. |
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