authorised and directed to pay unto the said Philip Casson, for and during his life, the annual sum of 
sixty pounds fifteen shillings, to be computed from the said twenty-second day of December, seventeen
hundred and ninety-six, for his half pay as a disabled officer; provided, that from and after the same time
that he may be entered on the said list his half pay from this state shall cease to be paid by the treasurer
as aforesaid.

    RESOLVED, That if Benjamin Hatcheson, of Kent county, shall enter into bond, with two or
more sufficient securities, to be approved of by the treasurer of the eastern shore, for the sum of five
hundred and twenty-eight pounds two shillings and eight-pence current money, with interest from the
first day of September, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, it being the balance due from him to the
state of Maryland for arrearages of taxes for Kent county, on or before the first day of March next,
that the treasurer of the eastern shore, or the agent for the time being, be authorised to take the said
bond, payable to the state of Maryland, giving three years for the payment of the said balance from the
first day of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-six, one third of the principal and the whole of
the interest to be paid on or before the first day of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven;
one other third and the whole interest on the remaining balance to be paid on or before the first day 
of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight; and the residue to be paid on or before the first day
of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine; upon failure to pay the one third of the principal
and the whole of the interest at the respective times of payment, execution may issue against the said
Benjamin Hatcheson, and his securities, or against either of them, for the whole sum; and the said
Benjamin Hatcheson, upon giving bond as aforesaid, shall be released from the execution that is now
served on him for the debt aforesaid, upon his paying all costs, and sheriff's commission for the same;
and that he be allowed to discharge said bond in the same manner as other bonds are permitted to be
paid, taken for arrearages of taxes.

    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore pay to Alexander Contee Hanson one
thousand dollars, as a compensation for the system of testamentary laws by him prepared and laid before
this session of assembly.

    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore place to the credit of Robert Ramsey, as a
part of his composition money on his warrant of resurvey called Risque, in the certificate now lodged
in the land-office of the western shore, the sum of nine pounds nine shillings and one penny, it
being the sum paid to the agent, as appears by his receipt, bearing date the twentieth day of May,
seventeen hundred and ninety-six, for the land purchased, and to which the state could give no title
under the purchase.

    RESOLVED, That John Smith Brookes, one of the securities of Thomas Williams, late sheriff
of Prince-George's county, be and he is hereby allowed to make payment to the state in the following
manner, to wit:  One third of the principal sum now due on the said principal sum; one other
third on the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, with interest on the principal
then due; and the remaining third on the first day of January following, with interest as aforesaid;
but if the said John Smith Brookes shall neglect to pay any one instalment as aforesaid, then he shall
be liable to be executed for said instalment, with all interest due on the same.

    WHEREAS Dyre Betton, late surveyor of Queen-Anne's county, heretofore surveyed and laid off
the manor in said county into lots, under the direction of the commissioners of confiscated estates, and
returned certificates of each lot sold to the land-office of the western shore, several of which certificates,
upon examination, were found to be erroneous, and the said Dyre Betton afterwards died, without having
corrected the said certificates:  And whereas Robert Seney, afterwards surveyor of the said county,
appointed John Brown Hackett, one of the deputy surveyors of said county, to resurvey the said lots,
Robert Seney also died, and the aforesaid John Brown Hackett cannot now, under the laws of this
state, complete the business; wherefore, and to prevent the unnecessary expence of an entire new
survey by the present surveyor of the county, RESOLVED, That the said John Brown Hackett be and
he is hereby authorised and empowered to complete the said resurveys within sic months from the passage
of this resolve, and to make out and sign plots and special certificates thereof, stating the circumstances
of the case, with an affidavit of the truth thereof annexed or endorsed; and the said certificates shall be as
good and effectual as if made out and signed by the surveyor of the county; and if any amendments
or corrections of the said John Brown Hackett, or such other person as the chancellor, or the judge of the
land-office on the eastern shore, as the case may be, shall think proper.

    RESOLVED, That the chancellor of this state be and is hereby authorised and empowered to
make over, by deed of conveyance, to the heirs of George Wallace, of Cæcil county, deceased, in
fee-simple, all the right and title of the state of Maryland of in and to a lot of ground distinguished by
the number twenty-six on the plot of confiscated lots in Elkton, on their paying into the treasury the
sum of seventeen pounds fifteen shillings.

    RESOLVED, That all proceedings against Robert long, and his securities, for the sum due this
state on purchases made by him of the property of the late Principio company, be suspended until the
next session of assembly.

    RESOLVED, That the agent of the state be and he is hereby authorised and directed to enter into
an agreement, in writing, with some person in Baltimore-town or county, for the cloathing, support
and maintenance, of negro Daniel, the property of the state, who is now in the family of Robert
Long, and that this general assembly will annually allow to the person with whom the agent shall