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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
of all such of their creditors as should assent to and sign the
release contained in the said deed; that the said deed was assented
to and signed by four-fifths in amount and value of their creditors,
but that the agents of certain British creditors in this state, not
conceiving themselves authorised, did not assent to the said release,
and now after a lapse of more than five years, have commenced
suits against him for debts due from the said firm of Alexander
and James Fulton, although by the said deed he has been wholly
deprived of all means of satisfying the said claims, and has since
been obliged to encounter great difficulties in supporting his wife
and family, which support they will be entirely deprived of if the
said claimants continue to prosecute their suits against him, and
hath prayed that he may be released from all claims and demands
against him as one of the firm of Alexander and James Fulton,
without prejudicing any just claims against him for any debts contracted
since the date of the said deed; and the prayer of the said
James Fulton appearing reasonable, therefore, |
1810.
CHAP. 133. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
on application of the said James Fulton to Baltimore county court,
and satisfying them by competent testimony, that he hath obtained
the release of two-thirds in amount of the creditors of the late
firm of Alexander and James Fulton, and taking before the said
court an oath to assign and transfer to the trustees in the aforesaid
deed named, in such manner as the said court shall direct, all
the property, real, personal and mixed, and all the debts and effects
to which he was in any way entitled at the date of the said
deed; and on the said James Fulton executing and delivering to the
said trustees such deed as the court shall direct for that purpose,
it shall and may be lawful for the said court to release the said
James Fulton from all debts, contracts, claims and demands, against
him as one of the late firm of Alexander and James Fulton, or for
which the said James Fulton was or is in any way liable as one of
the partners of the said firm; Provided always, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to release any claim against the said
James Fulton for any debt contracted by him solely and on his own
account. |
On his application
to county court
they may release
him, &c.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CXXXIV.
A Supplement to the Act*, entitled, An act to incorporate the Stockholders
of the Mechanics Bank of Baltimore, Lib. TH.
No. 2,
fol. 613 |
Passed Dec. 25.
* 1806, ch. 19. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
no stockholder in the Mechanics Bank of Baltimore, shall be considered
a practical mechanic or manufacturer, within the meaning
of the seventh section of the act to which this is a supplement, nor
as such be eligible as a director of said bank, unless he shall have
actually learned and wrought at some mechanical or manufacturing
trade for the term of three years at the least, and for the term of
twelve months next preceding the time of his election shall have carried
on, and shall then be carrying on, as his principal occupation,
some mechanical or manufacturing business, in his own person or
with his own funds, by workmen or apprentices employed by or
working under him. |
What persons
shall be denominated
practical
mechanics, &c. |
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