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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXIX.
An Act authorising Matthias Dashiell, former Sheriff and Collector
of
Somerset County, to complete his Collection. Lib.
TH. No. 4,
fol. 132. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 119.
Passed Jan. 26, 1814. |
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CHAP. CXX.
An Act for the benefit of Elijah S. Smith, of Somerset County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 133. |
Passed Jan. 26, 1814. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the justices of the levy court of Somerset county be and they are
hereby empowered and directed, at their levy court annually, so
long as they shall see cause, to assess and levy on the assessable
property of said county, a sum of money not exceeding thirty dollars,
for the support and maintenance of the said Elijah S. Smith,
and that the same be collected annually by the collector of Somerset
county, and paid to the said Elijah S. Smith, or his order. |
Levy authorised
for his support. |
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CHAP. CXXI.
An Act to alter and change the name of Elizabeth Town, in Washington
County, to Hager's-Town, and to incorporate the same.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 133.
Supplements, 1814, ch. 56, and 1816,
ch. 170. See 1808, ch. 38; 1811, ch.
28; 1817, ch. 64. |
Passed Jan. 26, 1814. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the town in Washington county, state of Maryland, now called and
known by the name of Elizabeth-Town, shall for ever hereafter be
called and known by the name of Hager's-town. |
Name changed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Hager's-town aforesaid
shall be
and hereby is erected, constituted, and made an incorporate town,
and that the corporate body of the said town consist of a moderator
and four other commissioners, which moderator and commissioners
shall be a body incorporate, and one community for ever, in right
and by the name of The Moderator and other Commissioners of
Hager's-town, and shall be able and capable to sue and be sued at
law, and to act, and execute, do and perform, as a body incorporate,
which shall have succession for ever, and to that end to have a
common seal, and the same to change and alter at pleasure. |
Town incorporated. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the free white
male citizens of
Hager's-town aforesaid, of the age of twenty one years and upwards,
and paying tax in the said town, be authorised to elect, on
the second Monday in April next, and on the same day annually
for ever, five discreet persons, inhabitants of the said town, and
not under the age of twenty-five years, and being seized in fee, or
for life, or a freehold estate situate in the said town, or its additions,
as commissioners of the said town. |
Election of commissioners. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the two magistrates
of Washington
county first named in the commission of magistrates, residing
in the said town, shall hold the election at some place in the said
town for the said five commissioners, and shall be judges of the
said election, and the qualifications of those who shall offer to vote
at the same, and all votes taken at the said election shall be by
ballot; but if any one of the justices of the peace, so designated to
hold the election, be at the time thereof sick, absent from town, or
by any other means rendered unable to attend the election, then |
Two magistrates
residing in town
first named in
commission to be
judges of election. |
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