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JOHN H. STONE, Esquire, Governor.
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1796. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That the person or persons appointed to collect any
tax imposed in virtue of the powers granted by this act, shall have
authority to
collect the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of
the person
chargeable therewith, but no sale shall be made, unless ten days previous
notice
thereof be given, and if the tax imposed shall be chargeable on any
real property,
and no goods or chattels can be found liable to be distressed therefor,
the
same may be recovered by action of debt, or attachment, in Baltimore
county
court, in which no imparlance shall be allowed. |
CHAP.
LXVIII.
Tax may be
collected by
distress, &c.
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XII. And be
it enacted, That all and singular the powers granted to the said
corporation shall be and are hereby declared to extend to Deep Point,
and to all
wharfs and other grounds heretofore made and extended into the bason
of Baltimore-town,
or which shall hereafter be made or extended into the same, which
shall be considered and taken as part of the said city; and the said
corporation
may provide for the exercise of such powers, in the same manner as
if the said
wharfs and reclaimed lands were originally condemned as part of the
said
town. |
Powers to extend
to Deep
Point, &c. |
XIII. And be
it enacted, That an act of assembly, passed at November session,
seventeen hundred and eighty-four, entitled, An act for the establishment
and
regulation of a night watch, and the erection of lamps, in Baltimore-town,
in
Baltimore county, shall be and is hereby enacted and declared to be a perpetual
law, subject nevertheless to such alterations, amendments and revisions,
as may
hereafter be enacted and ordained by the corporation aforesaid, or the
legislature
of this state. |
Act declared
perpetual,
&c. |
XIV. And, whereas the committee
of health of Baltimore have incurred a
debt of two thousand two hundred dollars in the execution of the trust
reposed
in them, Be it enacted, That the
corporation aforesaid shall assess and levy, on
the assessable property of said city, the amount of the expenditures
of the said
committee of health for and during the year seventeen hundred and ninety-six,
to be collected in the same manner as the county levy is by law directed
to be
collected, and to be applied as aforesaid. |
Corporation
to assess money,
&c. |
XV. This act to continue in force until the first day of September,
seventeen
hundred and ninety-eight, and the end of the next session of assembly
which
shall happen thereafter. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. LXIX.
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An ACT to lay out and establish a turnpike road from the city
of Washington to Baltimore-town. |
Passed December
31. |
BE it enacted, by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That a subscription be
opened for a capital of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, in
shares
of two hundred dollars each, and that Gustavus Scott, Tobias Lear,
Notley Young, William Deakins, junior, and Marsham Waring, be and they
are hereby appointed managers for taking subscriptions for three hundred
shares
at the city of Washington; and that Henry Nicholls, James Carroll,
John
O'Donnell, Richard Caton and William Lorman, be and they are hereby
appointed
for taking subscriptions for three hundred shares at Baltimore-town;
and
that John Davidson, Philip B. Key, James Williams, John Muir and James
Mackubin, be and they are hereby appointed for taking subscriptions
for two
hundred shares at the city of Annapolis; and the said subscriptions
shall be opened
on the second Monday in April next, of which six weeks previous and
successive
notice shall be given in the Baltimore-town, George-town, Easton and
Annapolis
papers; and the subscription books shall be continued open until the
capital
aforesaid shall be subscribed, and on the completion thereof, a just
and true list
of all the subscribers, with the shares subscribed by each, shall be
made out
and returned by the said managers, under their hands, to the clerks
of Baltimore,
Anne-Arundel, and Prince-George's county courts, who are hereby
severally authorised and directed to record the same among the land
records of
their respective counties, and an attested copy of such record, under
the hand of |
A subscription
to be
opened, &c. |
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