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CHAP. 43.
Their allowance. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
herein appointed
shall receive the sum of two dollars for every day they
shall attend to discharge the duties required by this act, which shall
be levied and paid as other county charges. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. XLIV.
An Act to prevent Hogs going at large in the Town of Emmitsburgh,
in Frederick County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 250. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the
running at large of hogs in Emmitsburgh is injurious to the inhabitants
of said town; therefore, |
Hogs found going
at large in Town
may be killed or
impounded. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first Monday in March next, it shall not be
lawful for any person or persons whatsoever to raise or keep any
hogs within said town, except in enclosures, or to suffer any hogs
to go and remain at large therein; and if any hogs, the property of
the inhabitants of Emmitsburgh, shall be found going and remaining
at large within said town, it shall and may be lawful for any
person or persons to kill or impound the same, and if impounded,
such persons shall immediately give notice, by advertisements set
up at the most public places in said town, describing the hogs so
impounded, and if the owner or owners shall not, within five days
thereafter, prove his or their property therein, and make compensation
for the injury, if any, which may have been sustained by
any inhabitant of said town, to be ascertained by any two disinterested
persons, inhabitants as aforesaid, and shall not pay for every such
hog the sum of two shillings for every day it shall have been so impounded,
it may be lawful for the person or persons so impounding
as aforesaid to sell or kill the same for his or their benefit. |
General issue may
be plead. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
person shall be
sued and impleaded for killing, destroying and selling, any such
hog as aforesaid, the defendant or defendants may plead the general
issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence. |
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CHAP. XLV.
An Act supplementary to the act, * entitled, An act appointing Commissioners
to contract for and purchase the Lands commonly called
The Choptank Indian Lands, in Dorchester County, and
for appropriating
the same to the use of the State, and to repeal the
Act
of Assembly therein mentioned. Lib. JG. No.
4, fol. 251. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the said original act, the agent of the
state was authorised
and empowered to execute and acknowledge, in due form
of law, deeds of bargain and sale to the respective purchasers of the
several lots of Indian land which should be sold by him, and the office
of agent being discontinued, it is necessary to authorise some
other person to make such conveyances; therefore, |
Chancellor authorised
to execute
certain duties
vested in state's
agent. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the chancellor of this state shall be and is hereby authorised and
empowered to execute all and singular the powers and authorities
by the said original act delegated to, and vested in, the state's agent,
relative to the making and acknowledging deeds of conveyance to
the purchasers of any part of the said Indian lands, and to persons
lawfully claiming under such purchasers, or any of them; and any
conveyances made by the said chancellor, in virtue of this act, shall |
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