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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
or court may be better enabled to understand what remains to
be completed; and thereupon, the said chancellor, or court, being
first satisfied of the truth of what the petition shall allege, shall
be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to nominate
and appoint two, three, or more commissioners, according to the
progress made by the deceased commissioners, for the purpose of
completing the execution of the said commission, or of any order
relating to the same. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 68. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the register in
chancery, or the
clerk of the county court, as the case may be, shall thereupon issue
a warrant in the nature of a commission, directed to the persons so
appointed commissioners, reciting in substance the facts set forth
in said petition, and authorising and requiring the said commissioners,
or the major part of them, if more than two, forthwith to
proceed in the execution and completion of the original commission,
according to the provisions of the act to direct descents, and of its
several supplements, and directing them to return the said warrant,
together with a certificate of their proceedings annexed to the same,
with all convenient speed; and the said commissioners, upon receiving
notice of the said warrant, shall repair before a justice of the
peace in and for the county wherein they shall respectively reside,
and severally make oath or affirmation, that they will well and
faithfully perform the duties required of them by the said warrant,
and proceed in the execution and completion of the original commission
therein mentioned, agreeably to the directions and provisions
of the act to direct descents, and of its several supplements, without
favour, partiality or prejudice, and according to the best of their
judgment and understanding, and the said justice shall duly certify
the taking of such oath or affirmation, and endorse his certificate
on the said warrant, or annex it to the same. |
Warrant to be issued
to new commissioners. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
so appointed
and qualified, shall be authorised and empowered, and are hereby
directed to proceed in the execution and completion of the said original
commission, and to make a true and full return of their proceedings,
according to the tenor and command of the said warrant,
and the acts and proceedings of the said commissioners, or the major
part of them, under and by virtue of the said warrant, shall have
the like effect, and be of the same avail in law, as if such persons
had been named and appointed in and by the said original commission. |
New commissioners
authorised to
proceed in the execution
of original
commission. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever a majority
of commissioners
appointed under the act to which this is a supplement shall
qualify, they may proceed in the execution of the same, in the same
manner as they may do when the whole commissioners qualify as
directed by the original act. |
Majority of commissioners
qualifying
they may
proceed. |
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CHAP. LXIX.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose
of building a Carpenter's Hall, in the City of Baltimore.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 398.
This act repealed by 1815, ch. 43. |
Passed Dec. 15. |
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