| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
and are hereby exempted (in the hands of the person or persons so
hiring or renting the same) from all executions for debt or public
taxes, and from all distress for rent due, or that may become due,
from the person or persons so renting or hiring such stove or stoves;
Provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall protect
more than one stove for any one family, or any stove rented or
hired for more than one year; And provided also, that the contract
for
renting or hiring such stove shall be in writing, signed by the parties
to the contract, and acknowledged by them before one justice
of the peace, and recorded among the records of the county where
the party so renting or hiring resides, within twenty days after the
making of such written contract. |
1816.
CHAP. 210
Provisos. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the peace taking
the acknowledgment of the parties as aforesaid, shall be entitled to
six cents, and no more, as a fee therefor, and that the clerk shall
be entitled to the like fees for recording the same as are now allowed
by law for the recording of deeds and conveyances. |
Allowance to justices
for taking
acknowledgments. |
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CHAP. CCXI.
An Act to permit William Gibbons, a Free Man of Colour, to emigrate
and remove into this State. Lib. TH. No. 5,
fol. 366. A Private
Act. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
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CHAP. CCXII.
An Act for the relief of William Welsh, of Talbot County.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 366. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
it shall and may be lawful for the judges of Talbot county court,
or for any one or more of them, in open court, or in the recess
thereof, and they are hereby authorised and directed, to extend to
William Welsh, of Talbot county, an insolvent debtor, the benefit
of an act of assembly, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry
insolvent debtors, passed at November session eighteen hundred
and five*, and of the several supplements thereto, without requiring
the said William Welsh to produce the assent, in writing, of
so many of his creditors as have due to them two-thirds in amount
of the debts due by him, and to direct his discharge from the payment
of the said debts on his complying in other respects with the
provisions of the said laws. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
* Ch. 110. |
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CHAP. CCXIII.
An Act for the relief of Martha Graham, of Frederick County.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 367. A Private Act. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
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CHAP. CCXIV.
An Act for the benefit of John Resoner, of Allegany County.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 367. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the county court of Allegany county extend to John Resoner, of said
county, the benefit of the general insolvent law of this state†, and
the several supplements, without requiring him to obtain the consent
of two thirds of his creditors in amount, he first having complied
with all other requisites of said law, and the several supplements
thereto. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
† 1805, ch. 110. |
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