| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
be necessary to them in the prosecution of their works, provided
the said real estate shall not exceed ten acres in any one lot or
parcel, and of suing and being sued, answering and being answered,
and the said company shall have power to make a seal, and alter,
break and renew the same at pleasure. |
1816.
CHAP. 220. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every of
the provisions
and regulations contained in the act of the general assembly, entitled,
An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road
form the town of Westminster, in Frederick county, through Harman's
Gap, to Hager's-town, in Washington county, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and nine*, except so far as the
same may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are extended
to, and shall be considered as constituting a part of this
act; Provided nevertheless, that it shall not be necessary to
stone
the said road if the same is capable of being made to answer all
the purposes of stoning the same by other means, in as full and
ample a manner, as stoning thereof would do; and the said road
shall be so nearly level in its progress, as that it shall in no place
rise or fall more than will form an angle of five degrees with a horizontal
line, and shall for ever hereafter, during the continuance
of the said incorporation, maintain and keep the same in perfect
order and repair. |
Privileges of company.
* Ch. 96.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CCXXI.
An Act relating to Insolvent Debtors in the City and County of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 379. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the governor and council shall commission three persons of legal
knowledge, integrity and experience, as commissioners of insolvent
debtors for the city and county of Baltimore, and from and after
the issuing said commission, the said commissioners shall have
and exercise the powers and authority hereinafter mentioned. |
Commissioners of
insolvent debtors
to be appointed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases of
applications which
shall hereafter be made to Baltimore county court, or the judges
thereof, for the benefit of the insolvent laws of Maryland, it shall
be the duty of the court, or the judge to whom the application may
be made, forthwith to refer the same, together with the schedule,
petition, and other papers, to the said commissioners, who shall
thereupon appoint a provisional trustee to take possession for the
benefit of the creditors of such insolvent debtor, of all property,
estate and effects, books, papers, accounts, bonds, notes, and evidences
of debt; and the said commissioners shall take bond, with
security to be by them approved, for the appearance of such insolvent
debtor, to answer such interrogatories as may be propounded
to him by any of his creditors, or such allegations as may be filed
against him, within the time hereinafter mentioned; and the said
commissioners shall immediately thereafter report to the said court,
or judge, that the trustee appointed by them as aforesaid, is in
possession of all the property of such insolvent debtor; and the said
court, or judge, shall thereupon grant a personal discharge to such
insolvent debtor. |
All applications to
the court or judges
to be referred to
them. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall,
within ten days from the time of such personal discharge being
granted, cause notice to be given in one or more news-papers in the |
To cause notice to
be given of personal
discharge. |
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