NOV. SESS.
1796.
S. Chase requested
today before the
next assembly the
instructions given
by him to the
agents employed
for the recovery of
the bank stock in
England. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
No. 10.
RESOLVED, That Samuel Chase, Esquire, agent for
recovery of
the bank stock of England due to this state, be requested, and he is
hereby requested and desired, to lay before the next general assembly,
in writing, early in the session, the instructions by him given
to the solicitors and agents employed for the recovery thereof, and
also to communicate to the assembly, in writing, such information
as he may receive from such person or persons relative to the same;
and that he also lay before it a statement of the suit or suits now
depending in the court of chancery in England, with the parties
thereto, and such further process therein as may be instituted or
commenced before the next session. |
Persons appointed
to examine country
between
Washington and
Annapolis, &c. |
No. 11.
RESOLVED, That Walter Bowie, Levi Gantt, Benjamin
Lowndes
and Thomas Duckett, of Prince-George's county, and William
Harwood and Edward Hall, of Edward, of Anne-Arundel county,
and Charles Wallace and James Williams, of the city of Annapolis,
be and they, or any four of them, are hereby authorised and empowered
to examine the situation of the country between the city
of Washington and the city of Annapolis, and ascertain and determine
the direction and position of the nearest, most convenient
and practicable road, that can be laid off between the said places,
and report the same, with a plot thereof, to the next general assembly. |
Their allowance. |
No. 12.
RESOLVED, That each of the said persons, for every
day he shall
attend in ascertaining the direction and position of the said road,
shall be allowed the sum of two dollars; and the respective levy
courts of the counties of Prince-George's and Anne-Arundel are
hereby authorised and empowered to levy a sum of money in their
respective counties, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, for
the purpose of paying said persons. |
Money advanced
for purchase of six
per cent. stock. |
No. 13.
RESOLVED, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars
be advanced
out of the treasury of the western shore to the agent of this state,
to be by him applied in the purchase of six per cent. stock for the
use of this state, and that the treasurer advance the same, or such
part thereof as the governor and council shall from time to time
require, in writing, to be advanced. |
Unappropriated
money to be laid
out in purchase of
six per cent. stock. |
And, whereas there may remain a considerable sum
of unappropriated
money in the treasury of the western shore, after an honourable
discharge of all our engagements; therefore, RESOLVED,
That from and after the first day of July next, the treasurer of the
western shore advance to the agent of this state all such sum or
sums of money, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, as shall remain
unappropriated in the treasury, or so much thereof as the governor
and council shall from time to time think proper and require,
in writing, to be advanced, to be by him laid out in the purchase
of six per cent. stock for the use of this state; and the said
agent to be allowed a commission, not exceeding one per cent. and
provided, that such draught or draughts shall never diminish the
actual unappropriated money in the treasury below thirty thousand
dollars. |
|
 |
