| 1801.
CHAP. 75. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
are hereby authorised and empowered to assess and levy a sum of
money, not exceeding four thousand dollars, on the assessable property
of the county aforesaid, for the purpose of repairing the old
or of building a new poor-house in said county, provided that
not more than the sum of two thousand dollars shall be levied in
any one year. |
Commissioners appointed
to contract
therefor. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Thomas Lee, Walter
Worthington,
Jonathan Selmon, John S. Belt, Col. Rezin Hammond, Joseph
Selby and William Hall, 3d, be appointed commissioners to
contract with any person or persons for the repairs of the said poor-house,
in any manner that they, or the majority of them, may deem
proper, or if the majority of the said commissioners shall be of opinion
that it would be more beneficial to the interest of the county
aforesaid to build a new poor-house than to repair the old, in that
case they are authorised to purchase, in fee-simple, for the use of
the county aforesaid, not exceeding two hundred acres of land, in
any part of the said county, and also to contract with any person
or persons for building a new poor-house upon such a plan as they
may think most eligible, and to sell at public sale the lands and
premises belonging to the old poor house, and that they be authorised
to transfer the same in fee-simple, by a good and effectual deed
of conveyance, and apply the monies arising therefrom to the purchase
of such other land as they shall think more eligible. |
To call on collector
for money levied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid
shall call upon the collector for all monies levied and assessed for
their use in pursuance of this act, as soon as the same shall become
payable by law, and in case of neglect or refusal, they shall have
power, within two months thereafter, to issue an execution against
the said collector, out of the county court, for the money so due,
and shall have all the legal benefits and privileges usually attending
executions issued in behalf of the state of Maryland. |
| Their allowance. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the commissioners
aforesaid
shall receive, as a compensation for his services, the sum of
two dollars for every day he shall attend or be engaged in discharging
the provisions of this act, and the said allowance shall be assessed
in the county levy. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. LXXVI.
An Act to erect a Town in Montgomery County, and for other purposes.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 148.
A Supplement, 1802, ch. 28. See 1805, ch. 47. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery county, that Thomas
O. Williams, Elisha O. Williams, William P. Williams and Edward
O. Williams, did lay off a parcel of their land, adjacent to
the court-house of said county, into lots, a great part of which
have since been purchased, and considerable improvements made
thereon, and there being no record of the same, the titles of the
proprietors thereof are precarious and uncertain, and it is prayed
that the same may be surveyed, marked, bounded, and erected into
a town; therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to have
town surveyed. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Adamson, Josias Hanson McPherson, William Holmes, Benjamin
W. Jones and Thomas Linsted, be and they are hereby appointed |
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