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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
execution or executions have already issued, they shall be and are
hereby suspended until the end of the present session of assembly. |
NOV. SESS.
1791. |
No. 8.
WHEREAS William A. Needham, by his petition to this
general
assembly, hath set forth, that he was a sergeant in the late American
army, and received a wound by a musket ball which passed
through his body, and has rendered him incapable of gaining a
subsistence by labour; and this assembly considering it reasonable
that the same relief should be extended to the said William A.
Needham, as to others in similar circumstances, RESOLVED, That
the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised and
empowered to grant unto the said William A. Needham, in future,
half of the monthly pay which he the said William A. Needham
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. |
Wm. A. Needham
allowed half-pay. |
No. 9.
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that
Abraham
Gambell, late a soldier in the first Maryland regiment, was wounded
through the shoulder at Camden, on the twenty-fifth of April,
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, by means whereof he
is unable to support himself by labour, and this general assembly
considering it reasonable that the same relief should be extended
to the said Abraham Gambell as to others in similar circumstances;
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be and they are hereby
authorised and empowered to grant unto the said Abraham Gambell,
in future, such sum as, with the allowance he receives from
the United States, will be equal to half of the monthly pay which
he the said Abraham Gambell received when 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. |
A. Gambell allowed
half-pay. |
No. 10.
RESOLVED, That the half pay of a captain on the
British establishment
be allowed to William Fitzhugh, of Calvert county, to be
computed by the auditor from the third day of September, in the
year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, until the first day of November,
seventeen hundred and ninety-one, and that the treasurer
of the western shore be authorised and directed to issue a certificate,
bearing legal interest therefor, to the said William Fitzhugh. |
Wm. Fitzhugh allowed
half-pay. |
No. 11.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he
is hereby authorised and directed to examine and ascertain all
payments of interest made in specie between the fourth day of July,
seventeen hundred and seventy-six, and the first day of December,
seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, on bonds taken on the loan of
the emissions of paper money of seventeen hundred and sixty-nine
and seventeen hundred and seventy-three, and to liquidate and refund
the amount of such payments to the persons on said bonds, or
their legal representatives, claiming the same by the first day of
December, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, by granting a certificate
for the amount of the said payments, which shall be payable
and discountable for any public taxes due since the first day of
January, seventeen hundred and eighty-three; provided, that the |
Treasurer directed
to examine
payments of interest
made in
specie, &c. |
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