NOV. SESS.
1784. |
APPENDIX.
to pay for the said portrait and frame, and for conveying the
same from Philadelphia, and setting it up. |
Relative to the
agency of Samuel
Chase, Esq. |
No. 2.
On reading and considering the several letters to
his excellency
the governor from Samuel Chase, Esq. respecting his agency,
RESOLVED unanimously, That it is the opinion of this house, that
the said Samuel Chase, Esq. in conducting and negotiating the
affairs of this state, lately entrusted to his care as agent, hath
mainfested great zeal, fidelity, diligence and ability, and a vigilant
attention to the honour and interest of this government, and that
his said conduct merits, and therefore hath the approbation of this
general assembly. |
Register directed
to make out a patent. |
No. 3.
WHEREAS Thomas Hyde, of the city of Annapolis, hath
set
forth by his petition to this general assembly, that he obtained, out
of the land office, a warrant of resurvey on a lot of land in the
city of Annapolis, situated on one of the branches of a creek running
into the said city, with a view to secure a small quantity of
ground made by him, by filling in the marshy part of the head of
the said branch, on which he had erected a small building for the
use of a mill-house to a tan yard, which was contiguous to the said
ground; that he had a resurvey made in virtue of the said warrant,
and a certificate thereof returned to the land office, on which
he paid the composition money, and the value of the house above
mentioned, as ascertained by the surveyor; that upon application
for patent, he was informed, that by an act passed in April session,
subsequent to the date of his warrant aforesaid, all lands heretofore
resurveyed for the use of the proprietor were reserved to such
uses and purposes as the general assembly should hereafter direct,
in which it is conceived a former resurvey on the city of Annapolis
is included, though he apprehends not within the intention of
the legislature; and praying that a resolution might pass, directing
the register of the land office to issue patent on his certificate of
resurvey; and it appearing to this general assembly, that the facts
therein stated are true, therefore, RESOLVED, That the register of
the land office be and he is hereby directed, to make out a patent
on the resurvey aforesaid, in the usual manner, any law to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
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No. 4.
Whereas it appears to this general assembly, that
Job Garretson
of Baltimore county, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one,
bought of the state seven hundred and fifty acres of land,
part of the property of the late Principio Company, at six pounds
fifteen shillings per acre, for which the said Garretson bonded as
the law directs; that by actual measurement the same only contains
six hundred and sixty-one acres, which leaves eighty-nine acres
short, as appears by the certificate of the surveyor appointed by
the commissioners of confiscated British property; that the said
Garretson bought all the property on the land called Buck Range,
or the Lancaster Furnace, except the negroes, live stock, and
household furniture, that there were three hundred load of coal,
and three hundred and thirty-two ton of ore, taken away by order
of the commissioners aforesaid, and that considerable damage was
committed upon the furnace aforesaid after the sale and before the |
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