| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXXXV.
An Act Supplementary to an act* to provide for the appointment of
Commissioners for the regulation and improvement of
Princess-Anne,
in Somerset County. Lib. TH. No. 5,
fol. 275.
This act repealed by 1817, ch. 101. |
1816.
CHAP. 135.
Passed Jan. 29, 1817.
* 1815, ch. 73. |
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CHAP. CXXXVI.
An Act authorising the appointment of a Trustee for he Sale of Lot
No. 9, of the Choptank Indian Lands, in Dorchester County.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 275. |
Passed Jan. 29, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the governor, by and with the advice of the council, is authorised
and empowered to appoint a trustee to sell lot No. 9, of the Choptank
Indian Lands, lying in Dorchester county, upon such terms
as the governor and council shall prescribe and direct. |
Trustee to be appointed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustee appointed
in virtue of
this act, before he proceeds to exercise any of the powers vested
in him by virtue of said appointment, shall give bond to the state
of Maryland, in such penalty, and with such security, as the governor
and council shall approve, for the faithful performance of
all and singular the powers by this act directed to be vested in
him. |
To give bond. |
3. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That
no sale made
by the trustee aforesaid, by virtue of this act, shall be good and valid
unless the same shall be approved of by the governor and council. |
No sale to be valid
unless approved
by governor, &c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That upon the payment
of the whole
of the purchase money, the said trustee shall convey the said lot of
land to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, which conveyance
being duly made, shall be valid and effectual to convey all the
right, title, claim and interest, of the state of Maryland, of, in and
to, the said lot of land, and also all the right, title, claim and interest,
either in law or equity, which William Ennalls, late of
Dorchester county deceased, had to the said lot of land at the time
of his death, and which descended to his heirs. |
Trustee to convey
lot. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
proceeds of the
sale of the said lot of land shall be applied to the credit of a bond
made and executed on the twentieth day of August, in the year
seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, by William Ennalls, with
John Eccleston and Joseph Ennalls as his securities, as shall be
sufficient to discharge the same, and the surplus, if any, shall be
by the said trustee paid over to the executors or administrators, as
the case may be, of the said William Ennalls, and be considered
assets in their hands. |
Proceeds, how to
be applied. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustee
shall be entitled
to the same compensation for his services as is allowed by the
chancellor in cases of sale of lands made in virtue of a decree of
the court of chancery. |
Trustee's allowance. |
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CHAP. CXXXVII.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Queen-Anne's County.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 276. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
George Meginness, Joseph Rochester, Tristram Thomas, William
Cosden, senior, and Willson Register, be and they are hereby appointed |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
a road. |
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