| 1815.
CHAP. 120.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
arrear as aforesaid, and the expenses of the distress and sale or
lease as aforesaid, the said overplus shall be returned to the said
proprietor or proprietors to whom it belongs; Provided always,
that if any proprietor or proprietors from whom any arrears shall
be due as aforesaid, shall be under the age of twenty-one years, it
shall not be lawful for the said directors, during the infancy of such
proprietor or proprietors, to raise the said arrears, or any part
thereof, by distress and sale of personal property as aforesaid. |
Account of receipts
and expenditures
to be produced
to proprietors. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the directors to
be chosen in virtue
of this act, and each of them, shall at the expiration of the year
for which they shall be chosen, produce to the proprietors a full
and fair account of the money received by them, and each of them,
and from whom received, and how expended, and shall pay the
balance, if any, remaining in his or their hands, to directors to be
chosen for the next year; and in case any of the said directors shall
misapply or refuse to pay over as aforesaid, any sum or sums of
money to be received in virtue of this act, it shall and may be lawful
for the proprietors of the said branch, or a majority of them,
to nominate and appoint one of the said proprietors for the purpose
of asking, demanding, recovering, and in case of refusal suing for and
recovering, from the said director or directors, such sum or sums
of money misapplied or refused to be paid over as aforesaid, his executor
or administrator, to declare generally for money had and received
for his or their use, and give this act and the special mater
in evidence; in which said suit or suits the defendants shall be allowed
but one imparlance, and the money so received and recorded
shall be paid to the directors chosen in virtue of this act, for the
time being, who shall apply the same to the opening, cutting,
cleansing and repairing, the said ditch or drain, in the manner
herein before directed. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of death,
resignation, refusal,
or disqualification to act, of any of the persons chosen directors,
at any time hereafter, it shall and may be lawful for the said
other directors to meet as soon as conveniently may be thereafter,
at their place of meeting as aforesaid, and choose a person in his
stead to act as director till the next annual meeting of the said proprietors,
who shall be and he is hereby declared a director, to all
intents and purposes, until the succeeding annual election. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1816. |
CHAP. CXXI.
An Act for the benefit of Susan Rich and Samuel Rich, of Caroline
County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 615. A Private Act. |
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Passed Jan. 22, 1816. |
CHAP. CXXII.
An Act to authorise the President and Directors of the Choptank
Bridge
Company to contract with the Levy Court of Caroline
County for
the passage of the Citizens of said County over the
said Bridge, and
for other purposes. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 617.
See 1810, ch. 112. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, that Dover causeway
is kept up for the use and benefit of the Choptank Bridge Company, |
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