| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
or elisor, of the sale of any goods or chattels, lands or tenements,
hereafter to be made by and under any writ of fieri facias or
venditioni exponas, shall, in the case of the sale of goods and
chattels,
(negro slaves excepted) be by advertisement set up at least ten
days before the day of sale at the court-house door of the county,
and at least two other public places most convenient to such goods
and personal chattels; and in case of the sale of negro slaves,
lands or tenements, notice thereof shall be given by advertisement
set up at least twenty days before the day of sale at the
court-house door of the county, and other public places in the
county in which the negro slaves, lands or tenements may be, and
also published, for the same period of time, previous to the day of
sale, in some newspapers, provided there be any printed in the
county where such sale may be made. |
1816.
CHAP. 129. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
act, entitled, An
act relating to sheriffs, and for other purposes, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and thirteen*, as is inconsistent with, and
repugnant to, this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
Part of an act
repealed.
* Ch. 102. |
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CHAP. CXXX.
An Act to repeal the Act†, entitled, An act for the suppression
of Fairs
throughout this State. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 269. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1817.
† 1790, ch. 15. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, the act, entitled, An act for
the suppression of fairs throughout this state, be and the same is
hereby repealed. |
Act repealed. |
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CHAP. CXXXI.
An Act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from the
Market Space in Hager's-Town, to the West Bank of the
Conococheague.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 270. |
Passed Jan. 27, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company shall incorporated for making a turnpike road and
building a bridge over the Conococheague creek, beginning at the
market-space in Hager's Town, and running the nearest and best
direction to the west bank of sid creek, so as to intersect the
Cumberland turnpike road at the west bank of said creek. |
Direction of road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
shall be opened
on or before the tenth day of January next in Hager's-Town, for a
capital stock of sixty thousand dollars, in three thousand shares at
twenty dollars each, under the direction of the following commissioners,
or any one of them, to wit: John Kennedy, Jacob Zellers,
Upton Lawrence, Otho H. Williams, David Schnebly, Henry Witner,
William Heyser, Alexander Neill, and Henry Lewis. |
Books to be opened
for subscriptions. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when two thousand
shares of
said stock shall have been subscribed for, the commissioners shall
give twenty days public notice in two of the newspapers printed
in Hager's-Town, of the time and place appointed for the subscribers
to meet to organize said institution, and to choose, by a plurality
of votes, by ballot, a president and five managers, (three of
whom shall be a quorum) a treasurer, and such other officers as
they shall deem necessary, for conducting the affairs of said company
until the first Monday in May thereafter, and until a new
election, and to make such by-laws as they shall deem necessary, |
Subscribers, when
to meet to organize
company. |
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