| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the inhabitants
of the said town,
and all persons holding property therein, shall be competent witnesses
in all actions arising under this act, or the by-laws and ordinances
of said corporation, if exempt from all other exceptions
than that of interest as an inhabitant of the said town, or member
of the said corporation. |
1816.
CHAP. 74.
Inhabitants to be
competent witnesses
in actions
arising under this
act. |
24. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no ordinance of
the said corporation
shall be binding on persons who do not reside within the limits
of the said town, until the same shall have been published in
some newspaper of the said town, unless in the case of wilful and
intentional violation of said ordinance, after notice thereof; Provided
always, that the sid corporation shall not pass any ordinance
inconsistent with the laws of this state, or of the United States. |
Ordinances not to
affect nonresidents
until published.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. LXXV.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to Incorporate a Company
to make the several Turnpike Roads therein mentioned.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 218. |
Passed Jan. 15, 1817.
* 1815, ch. 190. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
whenever five hundred shares, or more, of the stock authorised by
the act aforesaid, shall have been subscribed, the commissioners
therein named, or a majority of them, shall notify the subscribers,
who may proceed to organize the company, and in the objects authorised
by said act, in like manner as if the number of shares mentioned
in said act had been previously subscribed. |
When 500 shares
are subscribed,
company to be organized. |
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CHAP. LXXVI.
An Act to alter and amend the act †, entitled, An act for the encouragement
of such persons as will undertake to build Water
Mills.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 218. |
Passed Jan. 15, 1817.
† 1704, ch. 10. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred
and seventeen, no master, owner, miller, or other person properly
belonging to, or otherwise owning any mill within this state,
shall ask, demand or receive, for grinding any quantity or quantities
of Indian corn or rye, above one-eighth part of every bushel of
Indian corn or rye by him or them so ground as aforesaid, upon
penalty and forfeiture of fifty dollars current money, for every offence,
one half to the use of the state, and the other half to him or
them that shall inform or sue for the same, to be recovered in the
respective counties by action of debt, before any justice of the peace,
in the manner as prescribed by law for the recovery of small debts
out of court. |
No miller to demand
more than
one eighth. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
act to which this
is an amendment, repugnant to the provisions herein contained, be
and the same is hereby repealed. |
Part of an act repealed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
have force until the
end of the next session of the general assembly.
This act was made permanent by 1817, ch. 189. |
Duration. |
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