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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and ninety-nine, * have contracted with James Calhoun for
the erection of an additional warehouse for the inspection of tobacco
in the city of Baltimore, BE IT ENACTED, That the proprietor
or proprietors of the said warehouse, when erected, shall receive
at the rate of one dollar on each hogshead of tobacco therein inspected,
as a compensation for the expense of erecting and keeping
in repair said warehouse, and in lieu of rent, to be paid before
such hogshead be removed, and for any tobacco that may remain
in the said warehouse more than one year, the further sum of
twelve and an half cents per month thereafter for each and every
hogshead so remaining.
Respecting the establishment of additional
warehouses in the city of Baltimore,
see 1803, ch. 95. 1811, ch. 52, ch. 145.
November 1812, ch. 112, and 1817,
ch. 164. |
1801.
CHAP. 63.
* Ch. 87.
Charges allowed
to additional warehouse
in city of
Baltimore, when
erected. |
55. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court of
said county, or a majority of them, shall when the said warehouse
is erected and fit to receive tobacco, nominate and recommend to
the governor and council three or five persons, in their discretion,
of whom the governor, with the advice of the council, if three persons
are nominated, shall appoint and commission one, and if five
persons are nominated two, to be inspector or inspectors of said
warehouse, in the manner directed by this act, and the said levy
court shall ascertain his or their salaries, and provide weights and
scales at the expense of the proprietor or proprietors aforesaid;
and that the said warehouse, when so erected, shall be in all respects
under the same regulations as other warehouses in Baltimore
county, except the building and keeping the same in repair, which
shall be done at the expense of the proprietor or proprietors. |
Persons may be
recommended to
governor and
council as inspectors
thereof. |
56. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the inspector
or inspectors appointed
for the said warehouse shall, every three months, account
for all monies received by him or them for storage of tobacco as
aforesaid, and pay the same to the proprietor or proprietors of the
said warehouse. |
Who shall account
for monies received,
every three
months. |
57. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act, entitled,
An act to regulate
the inspection of tobacco, passed at November session, one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, † and the several supplements
thereto, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
Acts repealed.
† Ch. 26. |
58. This act to continue until the thirtieth
day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and five, and until the end of the next session
of assembly which shall happen thereafter.
Further continued by annual general
continuing acts of 1805, ch. 109, &c. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. LXIV.
A Supplement to the act, (a) entitled, An act to provide
for the appointment
of Commissioners for the regulation and improvement
of
Cambridge, in Dorchester County, and to establish
and regulate a
Market in said Town. Lib. JG. No. 4,
fol. 123.
(a) 1793, ch. 66. See 1806, ch. 66, and 1815, ch. 70. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the memorial
of the commissioners of the town of Cambridge, that they
have contracted with William Bond Martin for a part of Market-street,
in the said town, and have received from him the purchase
money agreed to be paid for the same, and it is prayed that an act
may pass confirming the said sale and the title of the said William |
Preamble. |
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