| 1817.
CHAP. 101. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
sales with the said commissioners; and if any person shall think
himself aggrieved by any seizure made by the clerk of said market,
he may appeal within three days to the commissioners of said town
for redress, or any one of them, and he or they shall have power
and authority to make such order therein as they may deem just
and proper. |
House, &c. vested
in commissioners. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said market-house,
and the
stalls, shambles, issues, and appertenances thereof, shall be and
the same are hereby vested in the said commissioners and their
successors, for the use and in trust for the benefit and advantage
of the inhabitants of the said town; and the clerk of the said market
shall have full power, under the direction of the said commissioners,
to rent and hire out the stalls and shambles of the said
market-house upon the best terms, and to keep a fair and just account,
as well of the persons renting as of the profits arising from
such rents, and to render duplicates of such accounts to the said
commissioners, annually, on the first Monday of April, or oftener
if he shall be required, and the said rents and profits shall be paid
to the order of the said commissioners, and be applied to the uses
directed by this act; and in default of payment the same shall be
recovered in the name of the said commissioners, of any tenant or
person refusing or delaying to pay the same, by the warrant of a
justice of the peace, as in the case of recovering small debts before
a magistrate; and the clerk of the said market shall be allowed a
reasonable compensation for his services, not exceeding the sum of
fifteen pounds current money by the year, to be ascertained by the
commissioners, and to be proportionably assessed and levied upon
the inhabitants and owners of property in the said town, according
to the respective valuations herein before directed to be made. |
| Part of an act repealed. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the eleventh section
of the act to
which this is a supplement, passed at December session eighteen
hundred and fifteen, chapter seventy-three, and the supplement to
said act passed at December session eighteen hundred and sixteen,
chapter one hundred and thirty-five, be and the same are hereby
repealed. |
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Passed Feb. 4, 1818. |
CHAP. II.
An Act for the relief of the Poor of Caroline County. Lib.
TH. No.
5, fol. 625. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, that the existing
law for the support of the poor of said county does not answer the
purpose for which it was intended; therefore, |
Trustee appointed
--Oath--Powers. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
for the time being the several persons hereafter named be and they
are hereby appointed trustees for the poor within the said county,
and are empowered with full and sufficient authority to discharge
the several offices, duties and trusts, reposed in and required of
them, by virtue of this act; that is to say, Col. William Potter,
Edmond Pendleton, James Houston, Richard Hughlett, Peter
Willis, Jeremiah Rhodes and John Jump, senior; which persons, or
a majority of them, in case of the death or absence of any, are
hereby required to meet at the poor-house of said county, on the
first Monday of April next, and then and there qualify for the |
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