CHAP.
LXI.
Quarterly accounts
to be
rendered to
the treasurer,
&c.
A fair account
to the general
assembly, &c.
Commission
allowed.
The fifteen
per cent. to be
received, &c.
Agent to give
bond, &c. |
the western shore shall, within one month after he receives them respectively,
cause them, with the schedule annexed to them, to be recorded in the
office of
the clerk of the general court of the western shore, at the expence
of the
obligors; and a copy of the said record, certified under the hand and
official seal
od the said clerk, shall be as good evidence in any court of law or
equity in this
state as the original bond would be if it was produced; and if any
of the
obligors in any such bonds reside on the eastern shore, the said treasurer
shall,
within six months from the time he receives the same respectively transmit
to
the clerk of the general court of the eastern shore, in the same manner
as papers
on public service are transmitted, a copy of such bonds and schedules,
certified
as aforesaid by the clerk of the general court of the western shore,
to be recorded
in the office of the clerk of the general court of the eastern shore,
at the expence
of the obligors, and in such case a copy of the said record, certified
as
aforesaid by the said clerk of the general court of the eastern shore
shall be good
evidence as aforesaid.
XXI. And
be it enacted, That the said agent shall render to the treasurer
of
the western shore distinct quarterly accounts of his receipts of all
money, certificates
and bonds, in virtue of this act, and shall immediately thereupon pay
and
deliver the same to the said treasurer, who shall, in his annual report
to the
general assembly, state fully and particularly the money, certificates
and bonds,
by him received from the said agent, and the times when the same were
received
and accounted for.
XXII. And
be it enacted, That the said agent shall render a fair and full
account
of his several proceedings under the authority of this act to the general
assembly at their next session, and within the first ten days after
its commencement,
in which account shall be specified, under distinct heads, his own
receipts,
and those of the treasurer, and of all transfers of stock upon which
he may be
entitled to commissions, and in which shall also be contained a particular
estimate
of his commissions, shewing how and upon what the same arose due.
XXIII. And
be it enacted, That the said agent shall be allowed for his services
the following commissions, to wit: For all payments made to either
of the treasurers,
on bonds for confiscated property, one per cent. for all bonds
with
security, taken by the said agent on resales of confiscated property
in virtue of
this act, two and a half per cent. for all monies collected
on open accounts, not
including monies arising from fines, forfeitures and amerciaments,
ordinary, retailers,
marriage, hawkers and pedlers licences, which have become due since
the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-one, six per
cent. and for
all other monies by him actually received and paid into the treasury,
three
per
cent. and for all other bonds taken in virtue of this act, one
per
cent. provided,
that the said agent shall not be entitled to any commission upon the
monies
arising from fines, forfeitures, amerciaments, ordinary, retailers,
marriage,
hawkers and pedlers licences, unless in cases where the same shall
not be paid
by the sheriffs and clerks respectively to the treasurer within one
month after the
time prescribed by law, and unless the said agent shall thereafter
receive the same
from the said officers respectively, and the same pay to the said treasurer.
XXIV. And
be it enacted, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the agent,
and the treasurers of the eastern and western shores respectively,
to receive, as well
the fifteen per cent. interest, if any shall have accrued, as
all other the arrearages
that are now or may hereafter become due from fines, forfeitures and
amerciaments,
ordinary, retailers, marriage, hawkers and pedlers licences, and the
fifteen per cent. so collected shall be the only fund from which
the agent shall
draw his three per cent. on the same.
XXV. And
be it enacted, That the said agent, before he enters upon the
execution of the duties of this act, shall give bond to the state,
before the governor
and council, in the penalty of sixty thousand dollars, with such security
as the governor and council shall approve, for the faithful performance
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