| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CLXXXIV.
An Act authorising and requiring the Governor and Council to contract
with the Registers of the Land-Office on each Shore
for making
out such Indexes as are therein prescribed.
Lib. TH. No. 5,
fol. 332. |
1816.
CHAP. 184.
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
WHEREAS it is of great importance to the landholders,
that
they should be able to investigate their titles with facility and ease:
And whereas a general index of the names of the lands in the several
counties in this state has, by the rent rolls now in the land-office
for the western shore, been brought up to the revolution; and
it appearing to this legislature that a continuance of such index,
from that period to the present, will afford the greatest facility for
the investigation of land titles in this state, without which it may
be impossible to trace their history, therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised and
required, to contract with the register of the land-office for the
western shore for making an index of the names of all the lands
surveyed and patented since the revolution to the present time,
according to the plan on which he has commenced it. |
To contract with
register of western
shore. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the governor and
council are
hereby authorised and required, to contract with the register of
the land-office for the eastern shore, for making an index of the
names of all the lands surveyed and patented, which have been
returned to the said office up to the present period; and they are
hereby authorised and required, to draw upon the treasurer of the
western shore, as the work may progress, for such sum or sums of
money as may be necessary to complete the same, according to the
contract or contracts which may be made by them with the said
registers respectively, and the said treasurer is hereby authorised
and directed to pay the same out of any unappropriated money in
the treasury. |
With register of
eastern shore. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said
registers for the time being, after the said index shall be completed,
to continue the same, and for all future grants or surveys of
land the said registers are hereby authorised to receive twelve and
a half cents for entering the same in such index, from the party
making the survey of obtaining the grant. |
Registers to continue
index. |
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CHAP. CLXXXV.
An Act for the benefit of the Devisees of James Calhoun. Lib.
TH.
No. 5, fol. 333. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the devisees of James Calhoun, late of the city of Baltimore, to
whom may belong the parcel of ground at the corner of Pratt and
Light-streets, fronting one hundred and six feet on Light-street,
and extending westwardly eighty feet, be and they are hereby authorised
to improve and use the same, freed from the purposes of a
tobacco inspection house for which it was heretofore employed;
provided, an alley be left open on the south side of said ground
from Light-street, for the convenient passing of tobacco hogsheads
from said street to the inspection houses west of the same. |
Devisees authorised
to improve parcel
of ground. |
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