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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CLVI.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to ascertain the allowance
of Members of the General Assembly, Electors of Senate,
and
Electors of President and Vice-President of the United
States. Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 194. |
1811.
CHAP. 156.
Passed Jan. 4, 1812.
* 1796, ch. 41. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
each member of the general assembly, electors of senate, and electors
of president and vice-president of the United States, shall receive
in addition to their present allowance, the sum of fifty cents. |
Members of the
legislature, &c. to
receive an additional
allowance. |
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CHAP. CLVII.
An Act to prevent the erection of Booths within two miles of any
Methodist Camp or Quarterly Meeting in the several Counties
therein
mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 195. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
WHEREAS the Methodist society have at different
times sustained
much disturbance and vexation from disorderly persons who have
set up booths to sell liquors and other things near their public meetings
during the time of divine service; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
whosoever, from and after the passage of this act, shall erect a
booth for the purpose of selling, or shall sell or dispose of any
spirituous liquor within two miles of any methodist camp or quarterly
meeting in Queen-Anne's, Talbot, Montgomery and Somerset
counties, during the camp or quarterly meeting of the said methodist
society, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars current
money of this state, one half thereof to be applied to the use of the
county, the other half to him or them who shall sue for the same,
to be recovered in like manner as other fines and forfeitures. |
Penalty for transgressing
this law. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this
act shall be construed
to hinder any ordinary keeper or licensed retailer from selling
liquors and other things in their respective dwelling houses or
stores. |
Not to hinder any
ordinary keeper
from selling liquors. |
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CHAP. CLVIII.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to direct the Register
of
Wills of Caroline County to keep his Office in Denton
in said County,
and there to deposit the Records, Books and Papers,
belonging
to said Office. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 196. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1812.
* 1802, ch. 63. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
it shall be the duty of the register of wills of Caroline county, and
he is hereby directed and required, from and after the first Monday
of March next, to give daily attendance, (Sundays excepted,)
himself or by a deputy, at his office in the town of Denton in said
county, for the transaction of such business as appertains to his office;
and if the said register of wills shall refuse or neglect to comply
with the provisions of this act, he shall for such neglect or refusal
forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five dollars, for every day
he shall so neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions, to be
recovered by indictment before the judges of the county court of
said county, to be collected as other fines are, and applied to the
use of said county, any thing in the act to which this is a supplement
to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Register to attend
daily at his office
in Denton. |
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