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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
and Company, merchants, of Glasgow, in Scotland, and to Thomas
Montgomery, factors of James Ritchie and Company, merchants,
of Glasgow aforesaid, and that Stewart, Wilson and Montgomery,
obtained a deed from the said executors of Thomas Colvill under
said act of assembly, and that Stewart, Wilson and Montgomery,
sold part of the land to said Thomas Hawkins, distinguished by
lots No. 8 and 9, who has paid for the same, that the said Adam
Stewart is a British subject, Cumberland Wilson is dead, leaving
a British subject his heir, and that Thomas Montgomery is dead,
leaving James Dunlop his heir and devisee; and doubts being entertained
whether the said Thomas Hawkins, although he may
equitably be emitted to the land purchased as aforesaid, can obtain
a legal estate, therefore, RESOLVED, That the chancellor be and
he is hereby authorised, on the application of Thomas Hawkins,
of Frederick county, to take into consideration the facts aforesaid
or any other facts connected or relating thereto, and if the chancellor
shall be of opinion, from all circumstances, that the said
Thomas Hawkins hath an equitable right to the land mentioned as
aforesaid, he shall in such case be authorised and empowered to
decree a conveyance to the said Thomas Hawkins for such an estate
in the said land, and on such terms, as to the chancellor shall
seem proper, which said decree shall, on the compliance with the
terms thereof, operate to vest a complete legal title in the said land
in the said Thomas Hawkins, according to the terms of the decree. |
NOV. SESS.
1804.
Chancellor may
decree a conveyance
to Thomas
Hawkins, &c. |
No. 2.
RESOLVED unanimously, That the treasurer of the
western
shore be and he is hereby directed and required to pay unto Henry
Gassaway, of the county of Anne-Arundel, late a lieutenant in the
revolutionary war, a sum of money equal to half pay as lieutenant,
annually, in quarterly payments, during his life, as a further reward
to those meritorious services which he rendered his country
in establishing her liberty and independence. |
In favour of Henry
Gassaway. |
No. 3.
RESOLVED unanimously, That the general assembly
highly approves
of the conduct of William Pinkney, Esquire, in bringing
to a fortunate termination the claim of this state to stock in the
British funds. |
Conduct of Wm.
Pinkney approved
of relative to
stock in British
funds. |
No. 4.
RESOLVED, That the state of Maryland, in consideration
of the
service rendered to this state on that occasion, presents to the said
William Pinkney twelve thousand dollars, and the minister on the
part of the United States, resident at the court of London, in
whose name the said stock is held for the use of this state, is
hereby requested to pay to the said William Pinkney, or his order,
the aforesaid sum, out of any case received by the said minister
for the use and on account of this state. |
Twelve thousand
dollars presented
to him. |
No. 5.
RESOLVED, That the governor be and he is hereby
requested to
transmit to the said William Pinkney a copy of these resolutions. |
Copy of resolutions
to be transmitted
to him. |
No. 6.
WHEREAS Thomas Munroe, superintendent of the city
of Washington,
by his letter to the treasurer of the western shore of the
twenty-second of November, eighteen hundred and four, hath
therein communicated, that he had laid the letter received from |
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