| 1816.
CHAP. 245.
Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CCXLV.
An Act directing the Printing and Distributing the Laws therein
mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 408.
This act has ceased to have any operation. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
CHAP. CCXLVI.
An Act to authorise the Sale of a part of the Real Estate of George
Slacum, late of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 409. A Private Act. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
CHAP. CCXLVII.
An Act to alter and change all and every part of the Constitution
and
Form of Government as relates to the Attorney
General. Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 410. |
Part of constitution
repealed. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all and every part of the constitution and form of government of
this state, which relates to the attorney-general, be and the same is
hereby abrogated, annulled, and made void. |
Duties to be performed
as hereafter
to be directed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the duties and
services, now provided
by law to be done and performed by the attorney-general,
shall be done and performed by such persons, and in such manner,
as the general assembly of Maryland shall hereafter direct. |
If confirmed to be
a part of the constitution. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if this act shall
be confirmed by
the general assembly of Maryland, after the next election of delegates,
in the first session after such new election, as the constitution
and form of government directs, in such case this act, and the
alterations of the constitution therein contained, shall constitute
and
be valid as a part of the said constitution and form of government,
to all intents and purposes, any therein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding.
This act confirmed by 1817, ch. 69. |
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Passed Feb. 4, 1817. |
CHAP. CCXLVIII.
An Act directing the Register of the Land Office for the WEstern
Shore
to Record the Certificate of a Survey made of a Manor
commonly
called Lord Baltimore's Manor, on the Great Glades,
in Allegany
County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 411. |
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WHEREAS there is in the land office for the western
shore, a
paper (and which has been produced to this general assembly)
purporting to be an original certificate of a survey of a manor,
made by Francis Deakins, then one of the deputy surveyors of
the province, in pursuance of a special order to him directed from
the then governor, bearing date the twenty-second of April, in the
year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, by which it appears
that the said Deakins, on the eighth day of May, in the year
aforesaid, surveyed and laid out for his Lordship, the right honourable
Frederick, Lord Baron of Baltimore, all that tract or parcel of
land called _____, lying in Frederick, (now Allegany) county, containing
seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty acres of land;
and although the said certificate is thereon endorsed "for the office,"
no record thereof appears to have been made in the land office;
and it appearing that sundry surveys made of lands adjoining to
the said manor, or tract of land, call to begin at the end of, or to
run to, with or from, some one of the lines thereof, by the name of |
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