| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
and board of managers shall appoint, they giving at least thirty
days notice of the payments so required in the newspapers aforesaid,
and in case of failure to make payments as shall be required,
all antecedent payments shall be forfeited. |
1817.
CHAP. 225. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the managers first
elected as aforesaid
shall hold their seats until the first Monday in November next
following the election to be made agreeably to the mode prescribed as
aforesaid, and upon the first Monday of November in each and every
year thereafter, there shall be a new election for eight managers,
who shall on the second Monday of November, proceed to elect
their president; and the president and managers thus annually elected,
shall have full power and authority to make, alter or repeal,
by-laws for their government; Provided always, that they are not
inconsistent with, or repugnant to this act, and the laws of this state. |
Managers to be
elected annually. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president and
managers, so
soon as the said wharf shall be finished, shall have full power to
impose such reasonable tolls or wharfage for the use of the same,
and to adopt such regulations for the management of the said wharf,
as they may think right and just. |
Wharfage. |
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CHAP. CCXXVI.
An act relative to German and Swiss Redemptioners. Lib.
TH. No.
6, fol. 166. |
Passed Feb. 16, 1818. |
WHEREAS, it has been found that German and Swiss
emigrants,
who for the discharge of the debt contracted for their passage to
this country, are often obliged to subject themselves to temporary
servitude, are frequently exposed to cruel and oppressive impositions
by the masters of the vessels in which they arrive, and likewise
by those to whom they become servants. |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised, annually
to appoint, in every port of entry in this state, some trustworthy
person, skilled in the German and English languages, as
register of all deeds for the apprenticeship, or for the servitude
of
German or Swiss emigrants, arriving from foreign parts at such
port or place. |
A register to be
appointed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of said register,
after he shall have taken an oath, to be administered by the clerk
of the county court of the county wherein he shall reside, that he
will faithfully execute the duties of his office, without prejudice,
or partiality, to open an office, to draw up, as from time to time
he may be required, and to see to the due and legal execution of
the instrument of writing regulating the apprenticeship of every
German or Swiss redemptioner, who shall after the passage of this
law arrive within such port or place of this state, from beyond sea;
and no indenture or writing relating to such apprenticeship shall be
of any avail, unless the same be drawn up by said register, or be by
him approved of. |
His duty. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
further duty of said
register, immediately after the execution of any indenture relative
to the apprenticeship of any such emigrant, to transmit the same
tot he clerk of the county court of the county where such emigrant
shall arrive, there to be recorded, for which recording the said clerk
shall be entitled to receive the fees usual for recording such writings, |
Further duty. |
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