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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXCIX.
An Act for the relief of Anthony Thompson. Lib. TH. No.
2, fol.
410. A Private Act.
A Supplement, 1810, ch. 84. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 199.
Passed Jan. 8, 1810. |
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CHAP. CC.
An Act authorising appropriations for the Penitentiary of this State.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 410.
See 1811, ch. 177. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1810. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the governor and council shall be and they are hereby authorised,
from time to time, to draw orders on the treasurer of the western
shore for the amount of any stock of raw materials, provisions,
working tools and implements, to be used for the purpose of employing
the criminals confined in the penitentiary of this state, not
exceeding two thousand dollars for one year ensuing the commencement
of the operation of the act*, entitled, An act concerning crimes
and punishments, and also for the amount of any physician's account,
who may be called in to attend on the offenders confined
therein, which the keeper and inspectors thereof shall report to the
said governor and council to be necessary and proper, provided the
governor and council shall deem such report or account to be reasonable
and just; which orders the said treasurer is hereby required
to pay out of any unappropriated money in the treasury. |
Governor and
council to draw on
treasurer for
amount of raw materials,
&c. for
purpose of employing
criminals. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the keeper of the
penitentiary-house
of this state shall receive, as a salary for his services, the
sum of five hundred dollars annually, to be paid by the treasurer of
the western shore in quarter yearly payments, out of any unappropriated
money in the treasury.
See 1811, ch. 177, s. 2. By 1817,
ch. 72, the salary of the keeper not to exceed
1300 dollars, to be fixed by the directors of the penitentiary. |
Keeper's salary. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each assistant
keeper of the said
penitentiary-house, not exceeding five in number, shall receive as a
salary for his services the sum of two hundred dollars (a) annually,
to be paid in quarter yearly payments, out of any unappropriated
money in the treasury.
(a) Increased by 1810, ch. 77,
and Dec. 1813, ch. 69. As to the salaries of the
clerk and agent, see 1817, ch. 72. |
Salary of assistant-keepers. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act, and every
part thereof,
be and the same is hereby suspended until the commencement of
an act passed at this present session †, entitled, An act concerning
crimes and punishments, when the same shall commence and be in
full force and operation, and shall continue for one year next thereafter,
and until the end of the next session of assembly (b).
(b) This act commenced its operation
thirty days after the 30th of September,
1811, and has been altered and supplied by 1811, ch. 177. |
Act suspended, &c.
† Ch. 138. |
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CHAP. CCI.
An Act to authorise a Lottery to raise a sum of Money for building
a
Church for the use of St. Margaret's Westminster Parish,
in Anne-Arundel
County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 411. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1810. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Horatio Ridout, James Mackubin, John Maccubbin, Baruch Fowler,
James P. Soper, Zachariah Jacob and Charles Stewart, be and
they are hereby authorised and appointed commissioners, to propose |
Lottery authorised
—bond to be given. |
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