| 1817.
CHAP. 199. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
the county of which such person hath been or shall be appointed
and commissioned as sheriff, as aforesaid, to place the same for
collection in the hands of such sheriff, at any time within twenty
days after he shall have taken the oaths and given bond as
aforesaid; which fees shall be collected and accounted for by every
such sheriff, and his bond shall be answerable therefor, in the manner
prescribed by law. |
Executors of sheriffs
may complete
collection. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
death of any sheriff
before the first day of October in any year, after he shall have
given bond, then and in every such case his executors or administrators,
if any, or the securities of such sheriff, shall be and they
hereby are authorised and empowered, to complete the collections
of all fees placed in the hands of the deceased sheriff, within the
time prescribed by law, during the year in which such sheriff shall
have died, in the same manner as the sheriffs of the several counties
are authorised by law. |
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Passed Feb. 14, 1818. |
CHAP. CC.
An Act to incorporate a Company to be called The Washington and
Baltimore
Canal Company. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 131. |
Subscription to be
opened. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John E. Howard, junior, John McHenry, and Henry M. Murray,
in the city of Baltimore; General John Mason, Francis S. Key, and
John Peter, in George-Town; Daniel Carroll of Duddington,
Robert Brent, and Robert Sewall, in the city of Washington; Colonel
Henry Maynadier, Alexander C. Magruder, and Jeremiah
Hughes, in the city of Annapolis; Doctor William Beanes, John
Read Magruder, and Edward H. Calvert, in the town of Upper
Marlborough; and John C. Herbert, George Calvert, and Richard
Lowndes, in the town of Bladensburgh, or such of them as will
consent to act, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they, or a majority of them, in each place, are hereby authorised
and empowered to open subscriptions on the first Monday in
May next, in each of the several places aforesaid, for stock not
exceeding eight hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars
each, for the purpose of making a canal from the point on the Severn
river, to the navigable water of Curtis's creek, or other more
convenient tide water of the Patapsco, and also from a point on the
Severn river to the Eastern Branch; and said commissioners shall
give thirty days notice in the newspapers published in Baltimore,
Washington and Annapolis, previously to the first Monday in
May aforesaid, of the place where such subscriptions shall be received. |
Bodies politic authorised
to subscribe. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all individuals
and bodies politic
and corporate, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to
subscribe for such amount of said stock as they may think proper. |
Books to be kept
open three days. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall
keep the said subscription books open on the day which is herein
before appointed, and for the two succeeding days, from ten o'clock
in the morning till four in the afternoon. |
| Payment on subscribing. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every subscriber,
at the time of
subscribing, shall pay to the commissioners of the place at which
he shall subscribe, on each share subscribed, the sum of two and a
half dollars, for which the said commissioners shall give a certificate
as the evidence of such subscription and payment. |
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