| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXXXVI.
An Act relating to the Militia of Allegany County. Lib.
TH. No. 6,
fol. 44. |
1817.
CHAP. 136.
Passed Feb. 5, 1818. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the militia of Allegany county shall not be subjected to the discipline
of infantry, and shall be and the same are hereby required to
be trained as rifle-men, and that instead of being called out for
muster and discipline as heretofore required by law, be liable only
to be called out in companies, according to the direction of the
commanding field-officers of regiments or battalions, once in the
month of June, and once in the month of October, but that in all
other respects the said militia be subject to laws not existing on
the
subject*; Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall
be construed
to extend to such company or companies of militia in the
town of Cumberland, or the greater part of whom are residents in
the town of Cumberland. |
Militia to be trained
as riflemen.
* 1811, ch. 182.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CXXXVII.
An Act relating to British Property liable to Confiscation.
Lib.
TH.
No. 6, fol. 45. |
Passed Feb. 6, 1818. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General (a)
of Maryland, That
estate which was liable to confiscation by the laws of this state,
and
which was not actually sold by the commissioners of confiscated property,
or intendants of revenue, (except only the reserves westward
of Fort Cumberland and the reserves in the cities of Annapolis and
Baltimore) shall be liable to be taken up by a common warrant,
special warrant, or warrant of resurvey, in the same manner, and on
the same terms, as any vacant lands in this state may be taken up.
(a) The word Assembly omitted
in the engrossed law and record. |
Property may be
taken up by common
warrant, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall
have heretofore and since the session of the general assembly held
in November seventeen hundred and eighty-five, taken up any such
land, by either a common warrant, special warrant, or warrant of
resurvey, the same shall be deemed and taken to be as good and
available in law as if this act had at that time been in force, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided always, that nothing
in this law contained shall be construed to affect the right or interest
which any person or persons may have heretofore acquired
as informers, or otherwise, according to the laws of this state, relating
to British confiscated property. |
Land heretofore
taken up deemed
valid.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CXXXVIII.
A Further Supplement to the act†, entitled, An act directing
the manner
of suing out Attachments in this Province, and
limiting the
extent of them. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
45. |
Passed Feb. 5, 1818.
† 1715, ch. 40. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
if any person whatsoever, not being a citizen of this state, and
not residing therein, shall or may be indebted unto a citizen of this
state, or of any other of the United States, in a sum of money not
exceeding fifty dollars, or if a citizen of this state being indebted
to another citizen thereof in a sum of money not exceeding fifty
dollars, shall actually run away, abscond, or fly from justice, or
secretly remove him or herself from his or her place of abode, with
intent to evade the payment of his or her just debts, such creditor |
Debts under fifty
dollars due from
non-resident,
may be recovered,
&c. |
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