NOV. SESS.
1790.
Bonds for the purchase
of certain
lands to be delivered
up, &c. |
APPENDIX.
71¼ acres: And whereas it appears, from the certificate
of the
chancellor, that the said Alexander Wilson and William Pearce,
and the heirs of Joseph Thomas, did, on the 23d day of April last,
prove to his satisfaction, their respective peaceable possessions in
the aforesaid tracts of land, under titles derived mediately from
Pennsylvania, and that the said tracts are parts of the land called
the Welch Tract, and that the certificates of the said tracts had
been presented to him on the 19th or 20th day of last March, but
the person who brought them did not produce proof of the holders
peaceable possession and title as aforesaid, although he brought
money, and lodged the same in the treasury to make payment
agreeably to the aforesaid acts of assembly: And whereas it appears
further, by the certificate of the treasurer of the western
shore, that the said Alexander Wilson and William Pearce, and
the heirs of Joseph Thomas, did all pay for their respective land
at the rate aforesaid, before the 20th day of March, 1790: And
whereas it appears unreasonable that they should suffer from an
inattention or neglect of their agent, from which the state hath
sustained no loss; RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western
shore deliver up to the said Alexander Wilson, William Pearce,
and the heirs of the said Joseph Thomas, respectively, the bonds
passed to the state on account of the purchase of the aforesaid
several tracts of land, the paying all costs and charges of suit, if
any suit has been instituted. |
State's right to
land at Fort Frederick
to be sold,
&c. |
No. 4.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be and they
are hereby
empowered to appoint an agent to sell and convey the right of
this state to one hundred acres of land at Fort Frederick, in Washington
county, for specie, payable in three equal annual payments,
and the money arising from the said sale be and is hereby appropriated
as a further fund, in the hands of the treasurer of the
western shore, to discharge the orders of the president and commissioners
aforesaid, in the proportion and for the use aforesaid. |
Surplus interest to
be paid to debtors
who have discharged
their
bonds, &c. |
No. 5.
WHEREAS sundry debtors, in virtue of a resolution
assented to at
April session, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, discharged their
bonds in final settlement certificates, which had an interest due
thereon previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred
and eighty-five, and the said resolution authorised a payment of
such bonds in final settlement certificates bearing an interest only
from the said first day of January, and it is reasonable that the
surplus interest should be allowed to them; therefore, RESOLVED,
That the treasurer of the western shore be, and he is hereby directed
to pay the amount of such surplus interest in indents, to all
debtors who have discharged their bonds in virtue of the said resolution,
or to their legal representatives. |
Records and
dockets in general
court to be transcribed,
&c. |
No. 6.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be authorised
and
empowered to contract with the clerk of the general court of the
western shore to transcribe such of the records and dockets of the
said court as are defaced, to complete the said records from the year
1765 to the time of the appointment of Mr. Hodgkin, and to make
the necessary alphabets where there are none, and also a general
alphabet, to separate and sort all the papers of the office, up to the |
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