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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
time be granted, bargained or sold, and recorded at length, to be
directed, delivered and forwarded in like manner. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 191. |
35. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners,
in estimating
estates and interests in lands and town lots, shall observe the
following rules, to wit: That all lands held and enjoyed immediately
by tenants in fee-simple absolute, or fee-simple conditional, or executory,
fee tail, in dower, by the courtesy for life, or for years,
without any valuable rent reserved, shall be wholly valued to such
tenants. |
Rules to be observed
in estimating
estates, &c. |
36. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the tenant or
person holding any
leasehold estate, shall pay to the collector the sum valued for the
estate or interest of any landlord, and the tenant or person so
paying may have his or her action against the lessor, or his or her
heirs, executors or administrators, for the sum of money he or she
shall so pay, as for money paid for his or her use, or may deduct
the money so paid, or any part thereof, out of any rent reserved
upon such tenancy, unless otherwise agreed between the lessor and
lessee. |
Tenants, &c. of
leasehold estates. |
37. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the average value
of the lands
by the acre in Allegany county be fifty cents current money, and
that the average value of the lands in Washington county shall be
three dollars and twenty cents per acre, any thing in the before
mentioned act to ascertain the value of the land in the several counties
of this state, for the purpose of laying the public assessment,
to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Average value of
lands in Allegany
and Washington. |
38. AND whereas large quantities of land to
the westward of
Fort Cumberland in Allegany county, have been granted, disposed
of, or sold by the state, to different persons, and in many cases the
person or persons to whom the same have been disposed of were
vested with an estate in fee simple therein, without any patent
therefor, in virtue of an* act to dispose of the reserved lands westward
of Fort Cumberland in Allegany county; and to fulfil the engagements
made by this state to the officers and soldiers of the
Maryland line, in the service of the United States, and sundry
supplementary acts thereto, therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That all
lands granted, disposed of or sold, in virtue of the said act and
supplements thereto, shall be and they are hereby made chargeable
with any tax or assessment, or county charge, that is or may
hereafter be laid or imposed according to the respective value
which shall be set upon any such lands in virtue of this act; Provided,
that nothing in this act contained shall subject to sale any
lands heretofore granted by this state to the officers and soldiers,
where the same remain in the possession of the original
grantees, or their heirs, under devise or by descent; but the
commissioners of the tax for Allegany county shall cause to be
entered on their books, all the lots or parts of lots of land westward
of Fort Cumberland, which may come within their knowledge,
that have been or may hereafter be, in any manner transferred by
any officer or soldier, or where the right of any officer or soldier
to any such lots, or parts of lots aforesaid, have been or hereafter
shall or may be transferred by any sale under any law or laws of
the United States, or of this state, and when so entered as aforesaid,
and charged in the names of the purchaser or purchasers, of said
lots or parts of lots aforesaid, at any such sale or sales, the same |
* Nov. 1783, ch. 44.
Lands westward of
Fort Cumberland
made chargeable
with public tax.
Proviso. |
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