NOV. SESS.
1791. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
try the same at the costs of the state; and if, in his opinion, the
said adjudication is lawful, and ought to stand, to report such his
opinion to the next general assembly, with the reasons thereof. |
J. Parker to
be entitled to patent
for land upon
paying therefor. |
No. 4.
WHEREAS Joseph Parker, of Cecil county, by his petition
to
this general assembly, hath set forth, that Edward Parker, of said
county, in his life-time, purchased of the state a tract or parcel of
land in East Nottingham, in said county, being one of the tracts
known by the name of the Nottingham Lot Lands, held under
equitable titles from the proprietors of Pennsylvania, before the
boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland was established;
that the said Edward Parker had the same laid off and surveyed
to him, but died without obtaining a patent; that since the
death of the said Edward Parker the said land was taken by the
sheriff of Cecil county in virtue of a fieri facias issued on a
judgment
outstanding against the estate of the said Edward Parker,
and was sold and conveyed by the said sheriff to a certain Charles
Brookins, and by him sold and conveyed to the petitioner; and
prayed that he may be entitled to a patent for the said land on the
same terms with other purchasers of Nottingham Lot Lands; RESOLVED,
That the said Joseph Parker shall be entitled to a patent
for the said land upon paying therefor, according to the rate and
on the terms prescribed by the second section of the act, entitled,
An act for the relief of certain purchasers of confiscated property,
passed at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-eight,
except only, that the said Joseph Parker shall make payment in
specie, and not in certificates as by the said act directed. |
Jos. Dawson allowed
half-pay. |
No. 5.
WHEREAS it appears to the general assembly, that
Joseph Dawson,
late a soldier in the fifty Maryland regiment in the service of
the United States, is disabled from wounds received at the battle
of the Eutau Springs, and is at certain times rendered incapable
of getting a livelihood; therefore, RESOLVED, That his excellency
the governor of Maryland, for the time being, be and he is hereby
authorised and empowered to grant into the said Joseph Dawson,
in future, half of the monthly pay which he the said Dawson received
in the continental service, by orders drawn quarterly on the
treasurer of the western shore for the same, and that the same be
charged to the United States. |
R. Dorsey allowed
half-pay. |
No. 6.
WHEREAS it appears to the general assembly, that
Richard Dorsey,
late a captain in the artillery from Maryland in the service of
the United States, is disabled from wounds received at the battle
of Camden, in South-Carolina, which prevent him from following
any occupation by which a sustenance may be obtained; therefore,
RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor of Maryland, for the
time being, be and he is hereby authorised and empowered to grant
unto Richard Dorsey, in future, half of the monthly pay which he
the said Dorsey received in the continental service, by orders
drawn quarterly on the treasurer of the western shore for the
same, and that the same be charged to the United States. |
No execution to
issue against debtors,
&c. |
No. 7.
RESOLVED, That no execution issue against any debtor
of this
state until the end of the present session of assembly; and if any |
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