APRIL SESS.
1787. |
APPENDIX.
said debtors, or any of them, shall make default in the last payment,
on the first day of June, 1788, that then executions shall issue
against the said debtor or debtors so neglecting, for the remaining
third part of the principal and interest due from them
respectively, agreeably to their original contracts; and the same
shall be levied and received from the said debtors, notwithstanding
the two first payments have been made in final settlements as aforesaid. |
No execution to
issue against such. |
No. 4.
RESOLVED, That no execution shall issue against
any of the
said debtors who shall make payment in final settlements in manner
aforesaid; and that on the said payments being made, they be
released from their bonds, contracts and judgments, as the case
may be. |
Continental money
to be received
in payment. |
No. 5.
RESOLVED, That continental state and state money,
with the interest
calculated thereon, be received in payment of all taxes, except
the ten shillings tax, and the duties appropriated to congress. |
Debts may be discharged
in final
settlements, &c. |
No. 6.
RESOLVED, That any debtor to this state, whose original
purchase
or contract was for state or continental state money, may
discharge any balance due by him in consequence of such purchase
or contract, in final settlements at the same rate, and on the same
terms and conditions, as debtors on bond, conditioned for the payment
of either of the said emissions, and executions or other process
against any such debtors shall be stayed or countermanded, in
the same manner as against debtors on bond as aforesaid. |
Process against
purchasers of land
in Cecil county to
be countermanded. |
No. 7.
Whereas it is represented to this general assembly
by sundry
inhabitants of Cecil county, that they purchased from the late intendant
of the revenue several parcels of land now in the said
county, but formerly within the lines of Pennsylvania and Delaware,
which lands, or parts thereof, the said purchasers claim title
to under the laws of the said states, and request time to produce
vouchers to support their said claims; RESOLVED, That all process
and proceeding against the said purchasers be countermanded by
the attorney-general, and not renewed before the end of the next
session of assembly, and the late intendant is directed to return
lists of such purchasers to the attorney-general and the treasurer
of the western shore. |
Estate of Leigh
Master to be delivered
up to him. |
No. 8.
RESOLVED, That the estate of Leigh Master be delivered
up to
him on his paying the costs this state hath been put to on account
thereof. |
Person to be appointed
to lay out
vacant lands to
westward of Fort
Cumberland. |
No. 9.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be requested
to appoint
and employ some skilful person to lay out the manors, and
such parts of the reserves and vacant lands, belonging to this state,
lying to the westward of Fort Cumberland, as he may think fit
and capable of being settled and improved, in lots of fifty acres
each, bounded by a fixed beginning and four lines only, unless on
the sides adjoining elder surveys; that the beginning of each lot |
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