| 1802.
CHAP. 81.
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXXXI.
An Act to make public the Proceedings of the Levy Courts in the
several
Counties of this State, and to repeal part of an Act
of Assembly
therein mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4,
fol. 291. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the several purposes for which monies are
levied in
the several counties in this state ought to be as generally known as
possible; therefore, |
Court to cause lists
of monies levied
for county charges
to be made out. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy courts in the several counties in this state, shall annually
cause their clerks respectively to make out as many fair and correct
lists of the monies levied for county charges as there are election
districts in the county, specifying therein the amount levied
for the poor, the amount, if any, levied for repairing the court-house
or gaol in the county, also for making and repairing bridges
and roads, also the amount which may be levied for any other purpose,
clearly designated under general heads; which said lists shall
be signed by the respective clerks, and shall by them be delivered
to the respective sheriffs, at least ten days before the election for
delegates, under the penalty of one hundred dollars; and the sheriffs
respectively are hereby required and directed to set up one of
said lists at each place of holding the election in each election district
of the county, within six days after the same shall have been
delivered to him by the clerk, under the penalty of one hundred
dollars, which said penalties herein imposed shall be recovered as
other penalties are by law recovered. |
Part of an act repealed.
* 1798, ch. 34. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all that part of
the act, * entitled,
A supplement to the act for the establishment and regulation
of levy courts in the several counties of this state, which requires,
that the governor and council shall appoint and commission the
justices of the levy courts from the list of those annually commissioned
as justices of the peace, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LXXXII.
An Act to alter and repeal such parts of the Constitution and Form
of
Government of this State as relate to the division of
Frederick
County into Election Districts. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 291. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, that
great inconvenience has been experienced for the want of two additional
districts in Frederick county; for remedy whereof, |
Part of the constitution
repealed.
† Ch. 115.
‡ Ch. 48. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all that part of the constitution and form of government, made
such by the acts of seventeen hundred and ninety-eight † and seventeen
hundred and ninety-nine, ‡ which directs that Frederick
county shall be divided and laid off into seven separate districts,
be and the same is hereby repealed. |
County divided
into nine districts. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Frederick county
shall be divided
and laid off into nine separate districts. |
If confirmed to be
a part of the constitution. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if this act shall
be confirmed by
the general assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the
first session after such new election, as the constitution and form
of government directs, in such case this act, and the alteration in
the said constitution contained therein, shall be considered as a
part, and shall constitute and be valid as a part, of the said constitution |
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