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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
shall receive the same compensation which overseers of public
roads respectively receive, which compensation shall be levied,
collected and paid, in the same manner that other county charges
are levied and collected and paid. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 105. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
when
they lay out said road, shall assess the damages sustained by the
individuals over whose lands the said road may be laid out, and
to return such assessment to the levy court to be levied, collected
and paid, as aforesaid. |
Damages. |
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CHAP. CVI.
An Act authorising John Newton, late Sheriff and Collector of Dorchester
County to complete his Collections. Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol.
443. |
Passed Dec. 21. |
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CHAP. CVII.
An Act to extend the powers of the Levy Court of Talbot County.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 443. |
Passed Dec. 22. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
by the petition
of the trustees of the poor of Talbot county, that the house
now used as the poor-house is not only two small to accommodate
the number usually under the care of said trustees, but that it is
in a decayed state now requiring much repair, that the utmost sum
the levy court are allowed by law to raise for the support of the
poor is adequate only to their maintenance, and therefore pray
that the powers of the levy court of the aforesaid county may be
so far extended as to authorise them to levy a sum sufficient to enlarge
and repair the said poor-house; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Talbot county, be and they are
hereby authorised and empowered, to assess and levy on the assessable
property of the said county, at their next levy, a sum of
money not exceeding one thousand dollars, together with the collector's
commission of four per cent. for collecting the same, for the
purpose of enlarging and repairing the poor-house of the county
aforesaid; which money, when so levied and collected, shall be
paid to the order of the trustees of the poor of the aforesaid county,
for the purposes contemplated by this act. |
Levy authorised to
repair poor's-house. |
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CHAP. CVIII.
An Act for the relief of Abraham Broom, of Talbot County.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 444. |
Passed Dec. 22. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the judges, or any judge of Talbot county court, be and they, or
any one of them, are hereby authorised and directed to extend to
Abraham Broom, 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 him to produce the assent, in
writing, of so many of his creditors as have due to them the
amount of two thirds of the debts due by him at the time of his
application for the benefit of this act, and to extend and to afford
to the said Abraham Broom, all the benefits, advantages and provisions,
of the aforesaid act, and the supplements thereto, in the |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
* Ch. 110. |
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