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APPENDIX.
be marked with marking irons, or otherwise, with the number
thereof, and that a fair book of such surveys, describing the beginning
of each lot by its situation, as well as number, be returned
and laid before the general assembly; that a brief note of the
improvements which may happen to be on any lot, and the name
of the person, if any settled thereon, be inserted at the foot of the
certificate of survey thereof, and that the reasonable expense of
such surveys be paid by this state. |
APRIL SESS.
1787. |
No. 10.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be requested
to cause
the auditor-general, or other proper officer, to make out an accurate
and fair list of the officers and soldiers who are entitled to
bounties of land under the promises of this state, and to lay the
same before the next general assembly. |
Auditor to make
out an accurate
list of officers and
soldiers entitled to
bounties of land. |
No. 11.
RESOLVED, That commissioners be appointed to view
and
report their opinion of a common highway or road to be opened,
cleared and made, in as straight a line as the country will permit,
(not going through any garden, yard or orchard, without the
owner's consent) from Baltimore-town to Bell-Air, in Harford
county, and from thence, in two different directions, to the lower
cross roads and the Bald Friar ferry, on Susquehanna, and to
employ proper and experienced persons to make an accurate survey
thereof. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
report relating to
a common highway,
&c. |
RESOLVED, That Nicholas Britton, Clement Green and
Charles
Ridgely Carnan, of Baltimore county, William Smithson, Jacob
Norris and Buckler Bond, of Harford county, or any three of
them, be commissioners for the purpose aforesaid, and that they
make a return of their proceedings to the next general assembly. |
Persons appointed
for the above purposes. |
No. 12.
WHEREAS the general assembly, at this present session,
have directed
that the emissions of June, seventeen hundred and eighty,
called state and continental state money, should be received in payment
of all taxes, not appropriated to congress: And whereas the
bonds given for property sold, payable in specie only, and on which
bonds the money was due before the first January, seventeen hundred
and eighty-six, were pledged by the consolidating act for the
redemption of such emissions; and this general assembly have
thought proper to grant further indulgence to the said debtors;
RESOLVED, That any executions issued against the said debtors, or
any of them, be and is hereby suspended, on the interest being
paid, and that no further process shall issue against any of them,
having paid all the interest due before the end of the next session
of assembly, and the said debtors, in the mean time, may pay into
the treasury the interest or any part of the principal due from them
on their bonds aforesaid. |
Executions
against certain
debtors suspended. |
No. 13.
WHEREAS an appeal is now depending in the court
of appeals on
the question, whether purchasers of confiscated property, since the
consolidating act, can pay their annual interest in specie certificates,
made receivable for the principal due for the said purchases;
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be, and is
hereby authorised to suspend and stop all actions and executions
against the debtors of confiscated property purchased since the consolidating |
Actions to be suspended
against
debtors of confiscated
property,
&c. |
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