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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
office by the register of wills of said county as they in their discretion
may think sufficient therefor, not exceeding fifty dollars for
each year. |
1802.
CHAP. 35. |
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CHAP. XXXVI.
An Act for the benefit of Thomas Hewitt, of George-Town, in Kent
County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 240. A Private Act. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
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CHAP. XXXVII.
An Act for the relief of Jane Offutt, Wife to Mordecai Burgess Offutt,
Verlinda Beatty, Wife to Charles Beatty, Rebecca Offutt,
Wife to
James Offutt, of William, Mary Offutt, Wife to James
Doull Offutt,
Cassandra Wade, Wife to William Wade, Charles Offutt
Jones,
Elizabeth Edmondson, Wife to William Edmondson, and
Zadock
Jones, all of Montgomery County. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 241. A
Private Act.
Confirming a deed from James Doull
to James Offutt for part of a tract of land
called Doull's Park. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
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CHAP. XXXVIII.
An Act for the benefit of William Elliott, of Prince-George's County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 242. A Private Act. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
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CHAP. XXXIX.
A Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act to prohibit
the raising of
Swine and Geese in Princess-Anne-Town, in Somerset County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 243.
(a) 1747, ch. 5. See 1815, ch. 73. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and three,
it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep or raise any
swine within the limits of Princess-Anne-town, in Somerset county,
(except in styes or other enclosures,) and if any swine, after the
said first day of April, shall be found going at large within the limits
of said town, it shall be the duty of the town patroller, upon the
information of any of the inhabitants thereof, or upon his own view,
to seize, secure, and detain in his custody, all such swine so found
going at large, until the owner or owners of such swine, so taken
up, shall pay to him the sum of two dollars, if an inhabitant, and
the sum of one dollar, if not an inhabitant of said town, which money,
so paid, shall be accounted for by the said patroller, and paid
to the overseer of the streets of said town, except the sum of one
shilling and six-pence for each and every hog so taken up, to be retained
by the said patroller for his trouble for each and every such
swine so seized; and in case such owner or owners shall refuse to
pay the said sum of two dollars, if an inhabitant, or the sum of one
dollar, if not an inhabitant, of said town, then the said patroller
shall dispose of such swine at public sale to the highest bidder, and
the money arising from the sale thereof shall be accounted for and
paid over as aforesaid, except the sum aforesaid. |
Swine found going
at large may
be seized by town
patroller. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whensoever any
swine shall be
taken up and secured by virtue of this law, it shall be the duty of the
patroller to advertise the same at the court house door, and at each
tavern in the town aforesaid, describing the marks and size of such |
When taken up to
be advertised. |
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