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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
amount of the depreciation of pay due him for his services as a
soldier aforesaid. |
NOV. SESS.
1798. |
No. 9.
WHEREAS by the act of congress passed on the third
of March,
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, four thousand five
hundred copies of the laws of the United States were directed to
be published and distributed among the respective states, in such
manner as the several legislatures or executives thereof should
deem most conducive to the general information of the people, and
there being three hundred and eighty of the said copies assigned
for the use of the state; therefore; RESOLVED, That the governor
and council send five copies of the said laws to the several county
clerks, to be delivered by them, one copy thereof to each of the
associate justices of the county court, another copy to the sheriff,
another copy to the register of wills, for the use of the orphans
courts, and one copy to be kept in their respective offices for the
use of the county courts. |
Distribution of
laws of U. States. |
No. 10.
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the governor and council
deliver or
cause to be delivered a copy of the said laws to each member of
the general assembly, to each judge of the general court, and to
each chief justice of the county courts; to the chancellor one copy,
to the judges of the high court of appeals, each one copy, to the
clerk of the court of appeals, for the use of the said court, one
copy, to the register or clerks of the corporations of George-Town,
and the cities of Annapolis and Baltimore, each one copy, for the
use of their respective corporations, to the principals of Saint-John's,
Washington, and the George-Town Colleges, each five copies,
for the use of the students in the said Colleges, to the principals
of all other seminaries of learning now incorporated by the
laws of this state, each three copies, for the use of the scholars in
said seminaries, to the librarian of the library company of Baltimore
five copies, and the secretary of the Somerset library company
two copies, for the use of their respective libraries; the residue
to be disposed of in such manner as the governor and council, or
the legislature, may direct. |
Further distribution
thereof. |
No. 11.
RESOLVED FURTHER, That in case of the death, resignation
or
dismission from office of either of the officers before mentioned,
excepting the members of the general assembly, the chancellor,
the judges of the court of appeals, and the judges of the general
and district courts, the said copies of the laws of the United States
delivered to them as aforesaid shall belong to their respective successors
in the said offices. |
In case of vacancy
in any of the
offices aforesaid,
laws to be delivered
to successor,
&c. |
No. 12.
RESOLVED, That William Kilty be and he is hereby
appointed to
revise the acts of assembly of this state, and to prepare an edition
thereof, including all public acts now in force, in the order in which
they passed, from the year sixteen hundred and ninety-two till the
end of the present session, inclusive, inserting, in the same order,
the titles of all private acts, and of such public acts as are repealed,
have expired, or have ceased to have any operation, the time
of such repeal, or expiring of each law, to be noted in the margin,
as also the continuances of such acts as were originally passed for |
Wm. Kilty appointed
to revise
the acts of assembly. |
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