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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
unless such informer shall otherwise direct, shall go on and be prosecuted
in the same manner as if this act had not passed; Provided
always, that in case the prosecution shall be carried on, it
shall be
at the costs of such informer, any thing in this, or the original act,
to the contrary notwithstanding.
4 and 5. These sections repealed by 1811, ch. 37. |
1802.
CHAP. 27.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. XXVIII.
A Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act to erect a Town
in Montgomery
County, and for other purposes. Lib. JG. No.
4, fol. 234.
(a) 1801, ch. 76. See 1805, ch. 47. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Rockville, in Montgomery county,
that the commissioners appointed by the act to which this is a supplement
did neglect to perform the several duties required of them
by the said act, and the said petitioners have prayed that new commissioners
may be appointed, with power to execute the said original
act; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Josias Hanson McPherson, Thomas Orme and Richard West, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, with sufficient power
to execute the several duties required of the commissioners appointed
by the said original act, in as full and ample manner as
if their names had been severally inserted therein; Provided, that
the said commissioners shall meet at the court-house in the said
county on or before the first day of September next, and then and
there proceed to the execution of the said duties. |
Commissioners appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid may,
on a survey of the said town, proceed to mark and bound the improved
lots only where they are continguous to those unimproved,
and where there may be squares unimproved, to mark and bound the
corners thereof, agreeably to the provisions of the said recited act. |
Who may mark
and bound lots. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as the
commissioners
aforesaid shall have performed the duties required of them by the
said original act, it shall and may be lawful for such commissioners
to appoint two proper persons as collectors, with full power to receive
and collect from each proprietor or proprietors of any lot or
lots in the town aforesaid, his, her or their respective proportion
or proportions of the expenses which may be incurred in the execution
of the said act; and if any such proprietor or proprietors as
aforesaid shall not, within three months after notice thereof by one
of the said collectors, pay his, her or their respective proportion of
the said expenses, it shall and may lawful for such collector to
compel payment thereof from such delinquent proprietor or proprietors,
by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such proprietor
or proprietors, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay
his, her or their respective proportions of the expenses aforesaid, and
the expenses of such sale, or by a sale of the lot or lots of such proprietor
or proprietors as aforesaid, or so much thereof as will be sufficient
to pay his, her or their respective proportion or proportions
of said expenses, and the expenses incurred on the sale of such lot
or lots. |
And appoint collectors. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the collectors
to be appointed in
virtue of this act pay over all sums of money which they may collect |
Money to paid
over. |
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