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CHAP. 140. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
for which the said institution was intended, cannot be as extensively
gratified as is consistent with policy and humanity; and this
legislature participating in all those humane feelings which dignify
the human character, and being desirous that no exertion of theirs
consistent with the public weal should be wanting in alleviating
those miseries of mankind for which such an institution is so particularly
calculated, therefore, |
Treasurer authorised
to pay 5,000
dollars annually
for three years. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the treasurer of the western shore pay to Colin McKenzie and
James Smyth, attending physicians to the Hospital in the vicinity of
Baltimore city, or their order, the sum of five thousand dollars annually,
for three years, to be paid out of any unappropriated money
in the treasury. |
Doctors McKenzie
and Smyth to give
bond. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, that before the said Colin
McKenzie
and James Smyth shall be entitled to draw for the said sum as
specified above, they shall give bond to the governor and council
with security, to be approved by them, conditioned that the money
aforesaid shall be applied to the finishing and completing the buildings
of the said hospital. |
Lunatics &c. from
any part of the
state shall be received
into hospital. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That poor lunatics,
and other afflicted
persons residing in the several counties of this state, shall be received
into the said hospital on the same terms and the same rates
that the paupers from Baltimore city are. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
CHAP. CXLI.
An Act for the relief of Richard Mackall, junior, of Calvert County.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 170. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
* Ch. 110. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Calvert county court, or any one of
the judges thereof during the recess of the said court, to extend to
the said Richard Mackall, junior, the benefit and relief of the act of
assembly passed at November session eighteen hundred and five*,
entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the
supplements thereto, without compelling the said Richard Mackall,
junior, to produce to the said court, or to the said judge in the
recess of the said court, the assent in writing, of two-thirds in amount
of his creditors; and to extend and afford to the said Richard
Mackall, junior, all the benefits, advantages and provisions, of the
aforesaid act and the supplements thereto, in the same manner, and
upon the same terms and conditions, as if he had obtained the assent
of two thirds of his creditors to his release under the same. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
CHAP. CXLII.
An Act to empower the Levy Court of Worcester County to sell the
Warehouses in said County.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 171.
See Dec. 1813, ch. 42. |
Levy court authorised
to sell certain
warehouses,
grounds, &c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court in Worcester county, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised and empowered to sell the warehouses
in said county, and the public ground on which they stand, or so
much of the same as they may deem proper and advantageous for
the county, together with the scales, weights and other implements
thereunto belonging, on such terms as they may think proper, and
to apply the money arising therefrom to the use of said county. |
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