| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
for this road only excepted,) by opening the same, and the damages
so ascertained shall be levied and assessed as other county
charges are, and shall be paid over to the said persons respectively
over whose land said road may pass. |
1815.
CHAP. 146. |
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CHAP. CXLVII.
An Act for the relief of the Baltimore Company. Lib. TH.
No.
4, fol. 656. A Private Act.
The legal title in fee simple of and
in all the lands heretofore held in partnership
by the Baltimore company, in iron works, which have been sold, but not
conveyed
to the purchasers, and of and in all the lands of the company which remain
unsold and undivided, vested in Henry W. Rogers, Samuel Johnston Donaldson,
and Thomas L. Emory, junior, in trust, &c. |
Passed Jan. 23, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the stockholders of said bank, to
elect on the fourth Monday in May next, and on the fourth Monday
in May in each and every year thereafter, in the way prescribed
by the act to which this is a further supplement, directors
of said bank, and in case the said stockholders shall neglect to
make said election at the time herein before stated, it shall and may
be lawful for the directors previously elected, and who having acted
as such, to hold their seats until a new election shall take place,
which shall be done as soon after the annual day of election as the
stockholders can be conveniently convened by public notice. |
Election of directors. |
2. AND whereas it appears uncertain whether
the elections heretofore
held for directors of the Elkton Bank of Maryland were
authorised by law; therefore BE IT ENACTED, That the several
elections of directors held by the stockholders of said bank, are
hereby made valid and effectual in law, and their acts are hereby
made as valid and effectual in law as if they had been legally
elected. |
Elections made valid. |
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CHAP. CXLIX.
An Act relative to the Administration of Justice. Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 1. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
whenever any process shall be issued from any county court directed
to the sheriff, coroner, or other officer of another county, and
the sheriff, coroner or other officer, to whom the same shall be directed,
shall neglect to make the return thereof to the court to
which such process may be made returnable, it shall and may be
lawful for such court, on motion, and on proof of the delivery of
such process to such sheriff, coroner or other officer, to amerce
such sheriff, coroner or other officer, in a sum not exceeding two
hundred dollars, and to enter up judgment against such sheriff,
coroner or other officer, for the amercement so imposed in the
name of the state, but for the use and benefit of the party aggrieved
by the neglect of the said sheriff, coroner or other officer, which
judgment shall be as valid as any judgment rendered upon the verdict
of a jury, and the party for whose use and benefit the same
shall have been entered, may sue out execution as in other cases of
judgments rendered in the said court. |
Process not being
returned sheriff
may be amerced—
Judgment. |
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