| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
now occupied by Samuel Harrison, Mark Sewell, Nathan Harrington,
and Joseph Harrison, of Joseph, in addition to the inhabitants
of St. Michael's, to work on the post road included in said
district only, but not on the streets of the said town, subject to the
same penalties in case of refusal, delay or neglect, by either commissioners
or labourers, as are pointed out in the act relating to
public roads in Talbot county. |
1817.
CHAP. 176. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the inhabitants
of said town
of St. Michael's, and the farms adjoining thereto, as mentioned in
the first section of this act, shall be exempt from working on any
other road or roads than those included in the district as expressed
in said section. |
Exemption from
working on roads. |
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CHAP. CLXXVII.
An Act relating to the Collection of the Public Arms. Lib.
TH. No.
6, fol. 109. |
Passed Feb. 13, 1818. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
whenever the several agents appointed or to be appointed by the
governor and council, in pursuance of a resolution to enforce the
collection of the public arms, shall have reason to believe that any
person has in his or her possession any of the public arms, or has
fraudulently disposed of the same, it shall be the duty of the proper
agent to call on the person supposed to have said arms in possession,
or to have disposed thereof in manner aforesaid, to deliver
up said arms, or to account for the same, and in case of refusal in
either case, the party offending shall forfeit the sum of fifteen dollars,
for each and every of the public arms so held in possession,
or refused to be accounted for, to be recovered by warrant in the
name of the state, upon proof of the fact before any justice of the
peace in the proper county, under the direction of the proper agent,
who is hereby authorised and directed to receive the money, and
account for the same with the governor and council, to be by their
order deposited in the treasury of the western shore. |
Penalty for refusing
to deliver arms. |
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CHAP. CLXXVIII.
A Further Supplement to an act (a), entitled, An act for
amending
and reducing into System the Laws and Regulations
concerning
Last Wills and Testaments, the duties of Executors,
Administrators
and Guardians, and rights of Orphans and other Representatives
of deceased persons. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
110.
(a) 1798, ch. 101. See
1802, ch. 101, and the acts there referred to; and also
1818, ch. 217. |
Passed Feb. 13, 1818. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the orphans courts of the several counties of this state, are hereby
authorised and empowered, in all cases where letters testamentary
or of administration have been or hereafter may be revoked, and
new letters granted, by any of the said courts, to enforce, by attachment,
suquestration of property and imprisonment, the delivery
or payment over of all unadministered assets by the person
whose letters as aforesaid have been or may be revoked, to the
person to whom such new letters have been or may be granted. |
Powers vested in
orphans court. |
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