POOR
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PORT DEPOSIT
 

PORTER, ELISHA
  AND ACHSAH
 

PORT TOBACCO
 

POSSESSION
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

POSSESSIONS

POST OFFICE

    Provision made for the education of poor children
in Kent, Talbot, and Cæcil counties,
—What property liable to be taxed therefor in Kent
county,
    The trustees in Somerset county to receive two dollars
per day for their attendance,
    An act to provide for their removal of lunatic paupers
from the several counties to the Maryland Hospital,
    See Hospital.
    Five trustees of the poor for Baltimore county directed
to be annually appointed by the governor and
council,
—Powers under former acts to be vested in them,
—Allowances to the trustees, and certain duties prescribed,
&c.

—A supplement vesting the appointment in the levy
courts, and making further provisions,
    An act for the relief of the poor in Caroline county,
—Former acts repealed,
    The levy court in Frederick county authorised to increase
pay of the overseer,
    The powers of the trustees in Harford county enlarged
as to the allowance to the overseer,
    The powers of the trustees in Worcester county enlarged
as to out pensioners,
    Money to be levied in Queen-Anne's county for the
payment of debts contracted by the trustees of the 
poor,
    Additional out pensioners allowed to be kept in Harford
county,
    The act for the education of poor children, (1816,
ch. 244,) repealed as to Anne Arundel and Montgomery
counties,
—Directions as to the funds,
    The trustees in Baltimore county authorised to receive
releases of lots belonging to the poor house affected
by the shutting up of Madison-street, &c.
    An additional assessment for the poor authorised in
Kent county,

    The place now called Creswell's Ferry, in Cæcil
county, to be known as Port Deposit,

    Of Anne-Arundel county—money to be levied for
their support,
 

    See Charles County.
 

   Whenever land shall be taken up under a common
or special warrant, or warrant of resurvey, any person,
&c. may give in evidence, under the general issue,
his possession,
—If it shall appear that the person, or those under
whom he claims, have held the lands in possession
twenty years before the action brought, such possession
shall be a bar to all right or claim derived from
the state under any patent issued upon such warrant,
—Not to affect any title under any common or
special warrant, or warrant of resurvey, where the
same shall have been laid before the passing of this act,

    See Quieting Possessions.

    Process from one county to another to be directed to
the clerks and put in the post office,

  1816     244

  1817        49

 ——        56
 ——        78
 
 

 ——        87    1
 ——        —    2

 ——        —    3
                          4

  1818      122
  1817      102
 ——        —  24

 ——      103
 ——      205

  1818        24

 ——        25

 ——        32
 

 ——        49
 ——      200

 ——        97

 ——      120
 

  1812        44
 

  1809        44

  1801        17
  1807        84
  1810        43
  1811        54
  1818        52
 

  1818        90
 
 

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 ——        —
 
 

  1817      139    1