| 1817.
CHAP. 183. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
be appointed by said judge, for a hearing before said court, on
said petition, according to the provisions of the said original act. |
Who are vested
with same power
as judges of county
courts. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judge
of the orphans court
in the execution of this act, shall have and exercise all the powers
which are had and exercised by any judge of a county court under
the original act, and the several supplements thereto. |
Proceedings to be
lodged with clerk. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all proceedings
to be had by any
judge of the orphans court under this act, shall be by him lodged
with the clerk of the county court, within thirty days thereafter,
and
the judges of the court shall proceed thereon according to the provisions
of the original act, and the several supplements thereto. |
Repeal.
* Ch. 28. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act of assembly,
entitled, An
act for the relief of insolvent debtors, passed in the year seventeen
hundred and seventy-four*, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
| Compensation. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judge
of the orphans court
shall be entitled to the sum of one dollar as a compensation for his
trouble, to be paid by the said debtor. |
Not to repeal an
act relating to
debtors in Baltimore.
† 1816, ch. 221. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall be
held to repeal, alter or change, An act†, entitled, An act relating to
insolvent debtors in the city and county of Baltimore. |
Applications not
be dismissed. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
application hath
been or shall hereafter be made to any judge of the county or orphans
court, for the benefit of the act to which this is a supplement, the
petition shall not be dismissed by the county court before the time
appointed for the hearing of such application by the judge to whom
the same hath been or shall be made. |
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Passed Feb. 13, 1818. |
CHAP. CLXXXIV.
An Act to establish an Academy at Liberty Town, in Frederick County.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 115.
A Supplement, 1818, ch. 92. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, the town of Liberty, and its vicinity,
are destitute
of a public school-house, to the great privation of education: And
whereas, it appears that a sufficient number of scholars may be
collected in the said town, and its vicinity, to maintain a Lancaster
and Grammar School; therefore, |
A public stock to
be raised. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a public stock may be and is hereby authorised to be raised in the
manner hereinafter mentioned, not exceeding two thousand (a) dollars,
in shares of ten dollars each, for the purposes of procuring a
lot of land in or near Liberty-town, erecting, building thereon,
and making suitable improvements and conveniencies for a Lancaster
and grammar school, and that the holders of the said stock be
authorised to draw from the profits of tuition in said school, an
annual interest not exceeding ten per cent. upon all sums not less
than one share paid for the use of the said school.
(a) By 1818, ch. 92, eight thousand dollars may be raised. |
Trustees incorporated
—Privileges. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said stock,
to be raised for
the purposes aforesaid, shall be confided in trust to seven trustees,
and their successors, to be chosen in the manner herein after mentioned,
and that the said stockholders and trustees shall be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, to become one community,
corporation and body politic, with perpetual succession, in
deed and in law, to all intents and purposes connected with the |
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