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CHAP. 237. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and directors thereof, or through their agency, or by their
authority, but the stockholders shall in no wise be answerable or
liable therefor, in their individual capacities or private estates;
and the service of any judicial process, by any authorised officer,
upon the president and directors, shall be a good service upon the
corporation. |
| Teacher to be provided. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said
company to provide a competent teacher to instruct the children
employed in their service in reading, writing and arithmetic. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
CHAP. CCXXXVIII.
An Act extending the benefit of the Insolvent Laws to certain persons
therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 403. |
Benefit extended
to certain persons.
* Ch. 110. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the full benefit of the act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry
insolvent debtors, passed at November session, eighteen hundred
and five*, and the several supplements thereto, may be extended
to the following persons, by the several county courts in which
they reside; William R. Sewell, of Calvert; William P. Ridgaway,
of Talbot; John B. Hanson, of Charles; Richard Stockett, of
Queen-Anne's; James Lee Morgan, of Harford; Jesse Bouldin, of
Cecil; Joseph J. Sterrett, William Willis, and Abraham Force, of
Washington; Zachariah McCubbin, of Montgomery; George W.
Higgins, John Deale, Samuel Wood, jun. and William Bates, of
Anne-Arundel; Samuel Greenwell and Philip Greenwell, of Saint
Mary's; Frederick Linthicum, of Frederick county; without being
required to produce to the court the assent of creditors as required
by said acts. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
CHAP. CCXXXIX.
An Act for the relief of Samuel Thomas, of Talbot County.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 403. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
† Ch. 110. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
Talbot county court is hereby authorised and directed, to extend
and afford to the said Samuel Thomas the full benefit of the act of assembly,
passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five†,
entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the
several supplements thereto, without requiring of the said Samuel
Thomas to produce the assent of two thirds of his creditors in
amount. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
CHAP. CCXL.
An Act for the benefit of Michael Lovejoy, of Prince-George's County.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 403. A Private Act. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1817.
‡ 1790, ch. 51. |
CHAP. CCXLI.
A Supplement to an act‡, entitled, An act for the speedy
conveyance
of Public Letters and Packets, and for other purposes.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 404. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the mode heretofore practised for forwarding
the
laws, votes and proceedings, and other public letters and packets,
to the different counties of this state, has been found deficient and
productive of much delay and inconvenience tot he people of this
state; therefore, |
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