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APPENDIX.
was issued from the continental loan office in this state, whether by
any recent order or resolution of congress, or merely by the authority
of the commissioners of the board of treasury of the United
States, in virtue of some agreement or contract by them entered
into on behalf of the United States with private persons. |
NOV. SESS.
1787. |
No. 4.
RESOLVED, That if the aforesaid sum was issued merely
by the
authority of the said commissioners, that the delegates be directed
to move in congress, that the said commissioners appear before congress,
and there declare the nature and terms of the contract by
them entered into, and with what persons, and exhibit an authenticated
copy of said contract, and make known the names of the persons
who first applied to the said commissioners for the issuing of
the said continental state money from the continental loan office in
this state, and declare the nature and extent of the terms first proposed
by such persons, and lay before congress a copy of said terms
or propositions, if reduced to writing, and preserved in the board
of treasury of the United States. |
If issued merely by
authority of commissioners,
delegates
to move that
they appear before
congress, &c. |
No. 5.
RESOLVED, That the delegates aforesaid be directed
and instructed
to obtain information from congress, whether any part of the four
tenths of the continental state money reserved to the use of the
United States has been lately drawn out of the continental loan-offices
of any of the other states, and which of them, and when,
and to what amount respectively. |
Directed to obtain
information relative
to state money
reserved to use of
United States. |
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MAY SESSIONS, 1788.
No. 1.
RESOLVED, That the executive be requested to take
charge of
and preserve the engrossed copy of the form of government proposed
for the United States, with an annexed duplicate of the ratification
of it by the late convention of this state. |
Executive to preserve
engrossed
copy of form of
government, &c. |
No. 2.
WHEREAS the late intendant of the revenue sold several
parcels
of land in Cecil county, formerly within the lines of the province
of Pennsylvania, which lands, or parts thereof, the purchasers
claim title to under grants from the proprietors of said province,
and the said proprietors also claim an interest in certain parcels of
said land; RESOLVED, That no proceedings be had against the
purchasers before the end of the next session of assembly, and
that when the claims above mentioned are adjusted, patents may
issue on such lands as this state had a right in, any defect in the
authority of the late intendant to sell the same to the contrary notwithstanding. |
No proceedings to
be had against
purchasers of land
in Cæcil county
before the end of
the next session. |
No. 3.
WHEREAS by a resolve passed at April session, seventeen
hundred
and eighty-seven, all persons indebted to the state for purchases
made in black and continental state money, were permitted to
pay off their debts in final settlement certificates, and many of the
said debtors have, in compliance with the said resolves, discharged
two third parts of their debts, and have applied to be allowed a
longer time to pay off the residue; RESOLVED, That the time limited
for the last payment be extended until the first day of September |
Time extended to
debtors. |
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