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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to hold, either by himself or his deputy, his office in the town of
Denton, in said county, and there to deposit and keep all the records,
books and original papers, belonging to said office, and that
he the said register, or his deputy, shall, in every week (a) thereafter,
be obliged to attend on Tuesdays and Saturdays at his said
office, (unless prevented by sickness or unavoidable accident,) for
the transaction of such business as appertains to his office; and if
the said register of wills shall refuse or neglect to comply with the
provisions of this act, he shall, for such neglect or refusal, forfeit
and pay a sum not exceeding five pounds for every week he shall
so neglect or refuse to comply with the said provisions, to be recovered
by indictment before the justices of the county court of
said county, to be collected as other fines are, and applied to the
use of the said county, any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
(a) By 1811, ch. 158, daily attendance,
(Sunday excepted,) is to be given by
the register, or his deputy. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LXIV.
An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Dukes, of Dorchester County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 268. A Private Act.
The state's right in the estate devised
to her and her son Hanson, by John
Wheeler, deceased, released to and vested in them. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LXV.
A Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act to appoint Commissioners
to examine, survey and lay out, the Road therein mentioned.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 269. |
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WHEREAS it appears by the act to which this is a
supplement,
that there is no provision made for the payment of the expenses attending
the execution of the said act; therefore, |
Levy court to pay
certain claims. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Baltimore county be and they are
hereby authorised and directed to pay, out of the monies collected
for the making the turnpike roads in said county at their next annual
session, a sufficient sum of money to satisfy and defray all the
just claims that may arise from the execution of said act. |
How vacancies
are to be filled. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any one
or more of the
commissioners named in the act to which this is a supplement should
neglect or refuse to act, that the levy court aforesaid is hereby authorised
and empowered to nominate and appoint any other person
or persons to act as commissioner or commissioners to fill such vacancy,
as they may think propor.
See 1803, ch. 67. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LXVI.
A Further Supplement to the act, (b) entitled, An act to
regulate Elections.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 269.
(b) 1799, ch. 50. See 1800, ch. 59. 1802, ch. 70, 103.
1803, ch. 46.
This act was repealed by 1805, ch. 97. |
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