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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
arms and accoutrements of the state may be deposited, specifying
that the said armourer shall deliver to the bearer of the order the
number of arms, &c. therein mentioned; Provided, that the governor
and council shall, in no instance, deliver such order, without having
previously received a bond, with sufficient security, for the safe
keeping and re-delivery of said arms, when demanded.
See May 1813, ch. 19, s. 11, &c. |
1811.
CHAP. 182.
Proviso. |
40. AND whereas, it is inconvenient to persons
residing in the
precincts of the city of Baltimore to attend the meetings of the militia
in Baltimore county, in which there now are five regiments;
therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That the persons residing in the precincts
of the city of Baltimore, shall compose a regiment to be attached
to the third brigade.
See 1817, ch. 228, for the better regulation
of the militia in the city of Baltimore. |
Persons residing
in precincts of
Baltimore shall
compose a regiment. |
41. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of levying and
collecting the fines and forfeitures imposed by company courts-martial,
the president of each court-martial shall, within five days
after the passing of the sentence of such court-martial, return in
writing, to the commanding officer of the company, the sentence of
the court-martial, with a list of the fines imposed by said court-martial,
under a penalty of ten dollars; and it shall be the duty of
the commanding officer, in thirty days after receiving said sentence,
under the penalty of thirty dollars for every neglect or refusal, to
make out two lists of the fines so imposed, and by him not released,
one of which he shall retain himself, and the other he shall deliver
to the constable or other fit person appointed, with a warrant or order,
under his hand, to collect said fines, with the day on which he
delivered said list to said person endorsed on the back of it, who
shall thereby be authorised to act as a constable in and relating to
the collection of the said fines and forfeitures, commanding him to
levy and collect said fines and forfeitures; and the said constables,
or other fit person appointed as aforesaid, shall be authorised, and
he is hereby required, under the penalty of twenty dollars, within
thirty days after the receipt of such warrant, to call on every delinquent
who shall be named in the schedule or list annexed to such
warrant, and demand payment of said fines and forfeitures from the
delinquents from whom they are respectively due; and on neglect or
refusal to make such payment, within thirty days after the demand
so made as aforesaid, then the said constable, or other person appointed
as aforesaid, having the said warrant, shall, and he is
hereby directed, to seize and take such portion of the goods and
chattels of any such delinquent, as may be necessary to satisfy and
pay such fines and forfeitures; and at any time between the tenth
and twentieth day after such seizure, having given at least five
days notice of the time and place of sale, by advertisements set up
at least three of the most public places in the neighbourhood, to
sell and expose to sale the same to the highest bidder; and in case
the said constable, or other person appointed as aforesaid, shall not
be able to find goods and chattels as aforesaid, it shall and may be
lawful, and he is hereby directed, at any time at which he might
have made the seizure of the said goods and chattels, to arrest and
take the body of such delinquent before some justice of the peace,
who shall commit the same to the public gaol of the county, there to |
Collection of fines
and forfeitures
imposed by company
courts-martial. |
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