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APPENDIX.
No. 6.
RESOLVED, That in future all officers return their
accounts of
fees, on oath, to the committee of claims, for which they claim an
allowance from the state, fairly stated, and fully expressive on
what principle the state is chargeable therewith. |
NOV. SESS.
1789.
Accounts of fees
to be returned on
oath. |
No. 7.
RESOLVED, That the attorney-general be directed
to strike off
no suit at the instance of the state, before the fees are paid, or secured
to be paid, in all cases where they are, by law, chargeable
to said defendants. |
No suit to be
struck off until
fees are paid. |
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NOVEMBER SESSION, 1790.
No. 1.
RESOLVED, That the purchasers of Ebenezer Mackie's
confiscated
property be released therefrom, and that the said property
be restored in the said Ebenezer Mackie in the same manner as if
it never had been confiscated; and that the treasurer of the western
shore be and he is hereby directed to deliver to the said Mackie
his bond now in the office for one third of said property, purchased
by him at a resale, on condition that the said Mackie pay to
the treasurer aforesaid the amount of all expenses which this state
may have incurred by reason of the confiscation, sale and resale,
of the said property, and all expenses incurred by the state in any
suit or suits at law, or in equity, on account of the said property. |
Purchasers of E.
Mackie's property
released therefrom,
&c. |
No. 2.
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that
on the 21st
of April, 1775, a patent was granted to George French, for a tract
of land called George's Adventure, containing 456 acres, and that
on the 27th of April and 24th of October, 1776, patents were
granted to the said George French, for another tract called the
Vale, containing 1627 acres, lying to the westward of Fort Cumberland,
and that the same has been held by the father of the petitioner,
and those claiming under him, since the year 1769, and
have been considerably improved, RESOLVED, That the right of
the state to the said lands be relinquished, any former claim to the
said lands on behalf of the state notwithstanding. |
Right of state to
certain lands relinquished. |
No. 3.
WHEREAS, by an act of assembly passed at the session
of November,
1788, and a supplement thereto passed at the session of
November, 1789, certain purchasers of confiscated property were
allowed to discharge their respective bonds, passed to the state for
their respective purchases, by paying, in depreciation, or other liquidated
certificates, at the rate of fifteen pounds for every hundred
acres of land, provided they should, by the 20th day of
March, 1790, make appear to the satisfaction of the chancellor,
that they were in possession of their respective parts, under a title
derived from the proprietor or proprietors of Pennsylvania, and
should thereon obtain a direction from the chancellor to the treasurer
of the western shore to deliver up their bonds, on payment as
aforesaid: And whereas a certain Alexander Wilson did purchase
of the then intendant of the revenue a tract of land called Mountjoy,
containing 141 acres, and a certain William Pearce did purchase
of the said intendant a tract called Pearce's Lot, containing
108 acres, and a certain Joseph Thomas did likewise purchase
of the intendant a tract called Joseph Thomas's Land, containing |
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