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CHAP. 25. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
seizing the same to sell the same by public vendue in the said village,
within three days, between the hours of ten and twelve of the
forenoon of the said day, and the monies thereon arising to apply
to his, her or their own proper use. |
Commissioners to
take an oath. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every commissioner
appointed in
pursuance of this act, before he shall proceed to execute his office,
shall take an oath, or affirmation, before some justice of the peace,
that he will diligently and faithfully, according to the best of his
judgment, perform the duties of a commissioner of the said village,
according to the directions of this act, without favour, partiality or
prejudice; and a certificate of such qualification shall be made and
returned by such justice of the peace to the said commissioners, to
be filed and recorded among their proceedings. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. XXVI.
An Act for the benefit of William Thomas of Prince-George's County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 231. A Private Act. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803.
* 1801, ch. 63. |
CHAP. XXVII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act to regulate the Inspection
of Tobacco. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 232. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by an act of assembly, passed at November
session,
eighteen hundred and one, entitled, An act to regulate the inspection
of tobacco, and to which this is a supplement, no person or
persons are permitted to export, or carry out of this state by land
or water, any tobacco, unless in hogsheads, inspected, passed and
marked, at some public warehouse, under the fines, penalties and
forfeitures, in the said act mentioned: And whereas great and manifest
injury and inconvenience is suffered by the citizens of this
state, in being prohibited from transporting and carrying their tobacco
into the county of Washington in the District of Columbia,
before the same is packed in hogsheads, inspected, passed and
marked as aforesaid, at some public warehouse; therefore, |
Tobacco may be
exported into
Washington county,
Columbia. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful
for any inhabitant of this state to export, or carry by land or water,
any tobacco, either in hogsheads or otherwise, without the
same having been first inspected, passed and marked, at any public
warehouse, into the said county of Washington, in the said District
of Columbia, any thing in the said act to which this is a supplement
to the contrary notwithstanding. |
No person to be
prosecuted for
doing so.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That from and
after the passage
of this act, no person or person shall be prosecuted, or in any
manner molested, for any fine, penalty or forfeiture, heretofore incurred
for having carried any tobacco into the said county of Washington,
in the district of Columbia, contrary to the provisions
of the act to which this is a supplement; and that any fine, penalty
or forfeiture, which any person may be liable for on account of
having carried tobacco into the county aforesaid, and for which a
prosecution is now depending or commenced, so far as the interest
of the state extends, be and the same is hereby remitted and released;
Provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be
construed to extend, to affect the right which any person may have
acquired as informer of any such offence, but that all such penalties, |
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