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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XXXVI.
A Further Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act to authorise
and
empower the Levy Court of Montgomery County to assess
and levy
a sum of money on the assessable property thereof for
the purpose
of building a new Gaol in said County. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 44.
(a) 1797, ch. 21. See 1800, ch. 51. |
1801.
CHAP. 36
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS by the act to which this is a supplement,
no provision
is made for the removal of prisoners from the old to the new gaol;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the sheriff of Montgomery county shall have power and authority,
as soon as he shall have received possession of the new gaol in said
county, to remove the prisoners from the old to the new gaol aforesaid,
and such removal shall not be considered as an escape, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Sheriff may remove
prisoners
from the old to the
new gaol. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Montgomery
county is hereby authorised and directed to sell at public auction
the
old gaol, on giving three weeks previous notice, by advertisement
set up at the court-house door, and such other public places as to
the said court may seem proper, which old gaol shall be, by the
purchaser, removed from the public ground within sic months after
the day of sale. |
Old gaol may be
sold. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the money arising
from the sale
of said gaol shall be applied to the use of the county aforesaid. |
Application of
money. |
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CHAP. XXXVII.
An Act to authorise the persons therein named to build a Methodist
Meeting House on the public ground in Chester-Town,
in Kent
County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 44. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS sundry members of the methodist episcopal
church in
Chester-town, and its vicinity, as well as others, not members of
the said church, have by their petition to this general assembly represented,
that the meeting-house in the said town is in a ruinous
condition, and is moreover so situated as to render it inconvenient
to attend the same, and have also represented, that persons of different
religious denominations have voluntarily subscribed a sum of money
sufficient to build a new meeting-house, which they pray they
may be permitted to erect on the public ground in the said town; and
the same appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That
Benjamin Chambers, James Hodges, junior, James Scott, Cuthbert
Hall and Doctor James Anderson, junior, or a majority of them, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to lay off a quantity
of the public ground on the market place in Chester-town, not exceeding
ninety feet in length and fifty feet in breadth, on such convenient
part thereof as the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall think proper, and to return a certificate thereof, under their
hands, to the clerk of Kent county, who is hereby required to record
the same among the land records of the said county. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay off
public ground. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said ground,
when it shall be
laid off, and a certificate thereof returned as aforesaid, shall and
may immediately thereafter be taken possession of by Doctor James
Anderson, senior, William Hamor, William McKenny, William
Harris and Peter Shnyder, as trustees of the methodist episcopal
church, for the purpose of building a meeting-house thereon. |
When laid off,
trustees may take
possession. |
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