| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
commissioners may authorise and compel the bailiff to kill any dog
within the town whose owner cannot be ascertained, or whose ostensible
owner or keeper shall by any mode or artifice evade the
payment of the tax. |
1815.
CHAP. 70. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the twenty-first
section of the
original law to which this is a supplement, respecting geese and
swine in the town of Cambridge, which section has been partially
repealed, be and is hereby revived and in full force, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding. |
Twenty-first section
of original
law repealed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any justice of
the peace for the
county aforesaid shall be authorised to hold an election on the third
Monday in February next, for five commissioners, qualified as directed
by the original act to which this is an additional supplement,
in the same manner as is directed by the said original act. |
Election for commissioners. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
so chosen
shall assemble on the first Monday in March next ensuing their election,
instead of the first Monday in April, as directed by the original
act. |
Annual meetings. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all subsequent
elections for commissioners
shall be held at the same time and in the same manner
as directed by the original act. |
Elections. |
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CHAP. LXXI.
A Further Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act for quieting
Possessions,
and securing and confirming the Estates of Purchasers.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 501. |
Passed Jan. 10, 1816.
* 1807, ch. 52. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all deeds heretofore made for conveying or passing any estate of
inheritance or freehold, or declaring or limiting any use or uses,
trust or trusts, or for conveying any estate or estates for above seven
years, which have been acknowledged by femes covert, and
wherein it appears by the certificate of the person or persons lawfully
authorised to take such acknowledgments, that the same were
made agreeably to law, or according to the act of assembly, or
words to that effect, although it does not appear that the same were
made by such femes covert on private examinations, or out of the
presence and hearing of their respective husbands, shall be and the
same are hereby declared to be, of the same validity and effect to
pass the property and estate limited and expressed therein, as if
such acknowledgment had been taken and certified in the manner
heretofore required by law; Provided, that nothing herein contained
shall affect the decision of any suit now depending, or in any case
wherein a judgment hath been obtained, or when any person or persons
having executed such defective deed, or those claiming under
them, are now in possession of the property; Provided also, that
whenever it shall appear that there has been surprise, or mistake,
or fraud, in obtaining such deed or acknowledgment, this law shall
not operate to make good such deed. |
Acknowledgment
of deeds, &c.
Provisos. |
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CHAP. LXXII.
An Additional Supplement to the act † to regulate Public
Ferries. Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 502. |
Passed Jan. 10, 1816.
† Nov. 1781, ch. 22. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful for |
Keepers may be
fined for neglect
of duty. |
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