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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
NOVEMBER SESSION, 1801.
No. 1.
RESOLVED, That Thursday, the twelfth instant, be
appointed to
choose a senator to represent this state in the senate of the United
States, who shall be a resident of the eastern shore of the state of
Maryland, and that the person having the majority of the ballots
of the attending members of both houses of the legislature be declared
duly elected to represent this state in the senate of the
United States; and that a commission issue to the said senator appointed
as aforesaid, signed by the governor for the time being, or
in his absence by the presiding member of the council, in the following
words, to wit: The state of Maryland to the honourable
_____ Greeting: The legislature of Maryland, reposing especial
confidence in your integrity and abilities, have appointed you senator
to represent this state in the senate of the United States until
the fourth day of March, 1807. Given under my hand, and the
seal of this state, this _____ day of _____, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and one, and in the twenty-sixth year
of the independence of the United States of America. |
NOV. SESS.
1801.
Appointment of
senator of U. S. |
No. 2.
RESOLVED, That the chancellor be empowered and requested
to
inquire into the circumstances respecting a sale of lands in Cecil
county made by Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, while intendant of
the revenue, to Jesse Reynolds, the certificate of which was returned
to the land office on the fourteenth of April, seventeen hundred
and eighty-seven, and which land was decreed to be sold on a
bill filed in the chancery court by Henry Drinker, executor of
Robert Montgomery; and if the chancellor shall be of opinion that
the said Jesse Reynolds, at the time of the said sale, held the said
land under an equitable title from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
so as to come within the description of those lands mentioned
in the acts of November, 1788, ch. 40, and 1789, ch. 14, he
may and shall direct that the said land be paid for at the rate of
l15 per hundred acres, with the fees and costs, as mentioned in
the
first mentioned act, and on the payment of such sum to the state,
with interest, in the manner in which he may prescribe, from the
proceeds of the sale, he shall direct the treasurer of the western
shore to deliver up the bond given by the said Jesse Reynolds on
the purchase of the said land, and shall, on the payment of the
whole purchase money, after the ratification of the sale, issue a
patent to the person entitled to the said land.
See November 1812, ch. 167. |
Chancellor to inquire
relating to
sale of lands to
Jesse Reynolds. |
No. 3.
RESOLVED, That the register of the land-office be
and he is
hereby directed and required to receive into his office the patent
heretofore issued to Jacob Baltzel, of Frederick county, for one
hundred and twenty-six acres of land, being lot No. 40, part of
Monocacy manor, bearing date on the twenty-first day of June, in
the year seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, and erase the word
"Jacob," and insert in lieu thereof the word "Charles" throughout
the said patent, and that he alter and correct the record book in
which the said patent hath been recorded, so as to correspond with
the said patent, when amended, and the error therein corrected as
aforesaid; and that the said Charles, and his heirs, shall have the |
Register to receive
patent issued to
Jacob Baltzel. |
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