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CHAP. 80. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
from time to time collect or send to the said visitors for the use,
relief
and comfort, of the prisoners so as aforesaid confined. |
To visit gaol once
a month, and inspect
apartments,
cloathing, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said visitors,
or any two or
more of them, shall, and they are hereby authorised and required,
to visit said gaol once in every month, or oftener if they deem
it necessary, for the purpose of inspecting the said gaol, and the
several apartments thereof, and the condition of the cloathing, bedding
and provisions, of the persons therein confined, and every
matter or thing which shall or may appear to the said visitors necessary
or conducive to the health and comfort of the persons so confined,
according to their respective situation, disposition and circumstances. |
Sheriff or keeper
to admit visitors
at all times.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff or
keeper of the said
gaol, or his deputy, are hereby enjoined and required, freely to admit,
at all times, the said visitors to visit and inspect the said gaol,
and the several apartments thereof, for the benevolent purposes
contemplated by this act; Provided always, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to impair the authority heretofore exercised
by the sheriff or gaoler respectively over said gaol, and the
persons confined therein, under the existing laws of this state. |
Visitors to keep
minutes of their
proceedings. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said visitors
shall keep fair
and regular minutes of their proceedings, and lay the same before
the levy court at their annual meeting aforesaid. |
No person to be
appointed for a
longer time than
one year. |
6. AND, in order to render the duties required
by this law as easy
as may be, BE IT ENACTED, That the said levy court shall not appoint
any one person a visitor of said gaol for a longer time than
one year in any three succeeding years, without his consent. |
| Duration. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue and be in
force until the thirtieth day of October, eighteen hundred and five,
and until the end of the next general assembly that shall happen
thereafter.
Further continued by the annual general
continuing acts 1805, ch. 109, &c. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. LXXXI.
A Further Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the opening
of
Second-Street in the City of Baltimore. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 163.
See 1800, ch. 56--and 1083, ch. 82. |
Preamble.
* Ch. 19.
† Ch. 31. |
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, by
the petition of
sundry inhabitants of the city of Baltimore, that the operation of
the act of assembly passed at November session, one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-eight, * entitled, An act for the opening of
Second-street, in the city of Baltimore, and of an act of assembly
passed at November session, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine,
† entitled, A supplement to the act, entitled, An act for
the opening of Second-street, in the city of Baltimore, is partial
and oppressive in imposing the whole expense of opening the said
street only upon those persons resident or holding property in said
street, between Gay-street and South-street, and upon those persons
holding houses or lots in and upon Second-street, between South-street
and Frederick-street, and upon persons holding property in
South-street; for remedy whereof, |
Jury to be summoned
for ascertaining damage
sustained by persons
holding houses
or lots in Second-street. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the sheriff of Baltimore county shall, on or before the second day
of April next, at some convenient place near the premises, to be
notified and appointed by the said sheriff, after having given at |
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