WHEREAS doubts have arisen, whether any vestry, under the original
act to which this is a supplement, can employ more than one clergyman
or minister within the limits of a single parish, and it appearing,
from the increase of population, that it is impossible for one clergyman
or
minister in some of the parishes in this state to perform all the duties
appertaining
to that office; therefore,
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the vestrymen
of any parish, or the major part of them, shall have full power and authority
to
employ such number of clergymen and clerks to officiate in their respective
churches and chapels as may, in their discretion, be deemed necessary to
perform
the ministerial functions in such parish or parishes, any thing in any
law to the
contrary notwithstanding. |
Preamble.
Vestry may
employ clergymen,
&c. |
WHEREAS the town of Havre-de-Grace, by several acts of congress,
has been erected into a port of of entry and delivery, and regulations
are necessary to prevent the exportation of unmerchantable flour, and
damaged provisions; therefore,
II. Be
it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
commissioners
of the town of Havre-de-Grace, or the major part of them, shall meet
at some convenient place in said port between the first and twentieth day
of July
next, and between the first and twentieth day of July yearly and every
year thereafter, during
the continuance of this act, and then and there nominate and appoint
a person of good repute, and skilled in the goodness and quality of flour,
to be inspector of flour within the port for the year ensuing.
III. And
be it enacted, That every commissioners of said town who shall vote
for said officer, shall take the following oath, or affirmation if a quaker,
before
he shall proceed to the nomination and appointment of the said officer:
" I, A.
" B. do swear, or affirm, that I will faithfully, honestly and impartially,
nominate
" and appoint such person to be inspector of flour within the port of Havre-de-Grace
" as I think in my judgment and conscience is fit and capable of executing
" the said office;" and in case of the death, refusal, or the neglect to
act
of such officer so appointed, the said commissioners, or a major part of
them,
shall, as soon as may be thereafter, meet together and appoint one other
such
person as aforesaid, in the stead of the person so dead, refusing or neglect,
to
act for the residue of the year; and if the said commissioners shall neglect
and
omit to nominate and appoint the said officer as aforesaid, then the governor
and
council may appoint such officer, who shall be qualified agreeably to the
directions
of this act, and have the like power and authority as if he had been
nominated and appointed by the said commissioners.
IV. And
be it enacted, That every inspector of flour who shall be nominated
and appointed as aforesaid, shall, before his executing any of the
duties of said
office, take the oath, or make the affirmation if a quaker, before
a justice of
the peace of Harford county, which is prescribed to be taken and made by
every
inspector of flour in and by the sixteenth section of the act passed at
November
session, seventeen hundred and eighty-one, entitled, An act to prevent
the exportation
of bread and flour not merchantable, and for other purposes, and also
the oaths to government which are prescribed by the constitution; and
the said
inspector of the port of Havre-de-Grace shall have the same allowance for
the
inspection of flour as by the said act is appointed and provided. |
Preamble.
Commissioners
to meet,
&c.
And take an
oath, &c.
Inspector to
take an oath, &c.
|
