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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
NOVEMBER SESSION, 1802.
No. 1.
RESOLVED, That all proceedings against William Mealy,
on his
bond passed to the state of Maryland for the purchase of Indian
lands lying in Dorchester county, be and the same are hereby suspended
until the determination of a suit now pending in the federal
court between the Indians claiming the said land and the state of
Maryland. |
NOV. SESS.
1802.
Proceedings against
Wm. Mealy
to be suspended. |
No. 2.
RESOLVED, That the judge of the land-office be and
he is hereby
authorised and empowered to examine, in a summary way, the
circumstances of a public sale made of a certain tract or parcel of
land lying in Harford county, called The Meadows, or Joshua's
Meadows, by two of the executors of William Amos, deceased,
and two trustees appointed by the orphans court of Harford county,
which land was directed to be sold by the last will of the said
William Amos for the payment of his debts, at which public sale
a certain Charles Baker became the purchaser, who hath since
conveyed to the said Thomas Amos, and if, on such examination,
the judge of the land-office shall be of opinion that the said sale
was fair, and not fraudulent, and not repugnant to the interest of a
majority of the persons concerned, although made without sufficient
legal authority, he is hereby authorised and empowered to order
a patent to issue to the said Thomas Amos for said land, upon
the composition money being paid by said Amos. |
Judge of land office
to examine
into sale of lands
called The Meadows,
&c. |
No. 3.
WHEREAS it appears that John Sterrett, and others,
were possessors
of a tract of land in Cecil county, called The Widow's
Lot, within the lines of New Connaught Manor, and that as possessors
they were entitled to the pre-emption: And whereas, at the
time the land was sold, the said Sterrett, and others, had leases on
the same, and, by management, a certain James G. Heron became
the purchaser, at and for the sum of three pounds two shillings
and six-pence per acre; that at the time he purchased it was supposed
a clear fee-simple estate was said: And whereas the said
James G. Heron, on making the aforesaid statement appear, obtained
a release of the contract aforesaid, and the same land was
afterwards, by the state's agent, sold to the said Sterrett, and others,
for the price James G. Heron agreed to give for the same, and
that the agent, at the time of the contract, promised the said Sterrett,
and others, that if it should appear that they, as settlers,
were entitled to the pre-emption, that they shall have it on the
same terms upon which other lands of said manor were sold, and
it appears that none of the said lands sold for more than twenty
shillings per acre: RESOLVED, That on the said Sterrett, and the
other purchasers of said land, paying to the state the full amount
of the purchase money, calculating the same at twenty shillings
per acre, with legal interest on the same, together with all costs of
suits brought on bonds executed by them to the state for said purchase,
that said bonds be and the same are hereby cancelled, and
all proceedings at law thereon stayed; and that the register of the
land-office be and he is hereby authorised and empowered to issue
patents to the purchasers of said lands, or to the heirs of any deceased
purchasers, respectively, for said land, on payment of the
fees of office. |
Bonds of J. Sterrett,
and others,
to be cancelled,
&c. |
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