NOV. SESS.
1804.
Treasurer authorised
to subscribe
for shares in bank
of Baltimore. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
said treasurer of the nineteenth instant before the president of the
United States, who, after consulting the secretary of the treasury,
directed him to state, that they consider themselves authorised by
the act of congress to pay the first instalment of forty thousand
dollars on any day in the year eighteen hundred and four, and that
the first instalment will be paid on demand; and as it is as convenient
to the United States to pay on the first as on the last day of
January, eighteen hundred and five, interest always ceasing from
the time of payment: And whereas the executive have instructed
the treasurer to request the payment of the said instalments
agreeable to the letter from the superintendent, which has been so
done, and the treasurer has according thereto received a warrant
from the general government, drawn on the branch bank of discount
and deposite in Baltimore for the said first instalment, to the
amount of forty thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars
and ninety-one cents, and it is proper that provision should be
made for the immediate investment of the said sum received, so
that the same may not remain inactive, therefore, RESOLVED, That
the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and
required, to subscribe, on behalf and for the use of this state, for
one hundred and thirty-four of the shares in the bank of Baltimore
reserved for the state by the act of assembly, entitled, An act to
establish a bank, and incorporate the subscribers thereto, passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and immediately
to pay over to the president and directors of the bank of
Baltimore the amount of the shares so to be subscribed by the said
treasurer, out of the money to be received by the treasurer under
the aforesaid warrant from the general government; and with respect
to the second instalment and interest, that provision should be
made during the present session for the investment thereof in some
productive fund. |
Chancellor may
order patent to
John Norris of
John. |
No. 7.
WHEREAS John Norris, of John, of Harford county,
by his petition
to this general assembly, hath set forth, that a certain David
McCray had purchased from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, late
intendant, a tract of land in Harford county; which said David
McCray assigned his interest therein to a certain James Rampley,
who assigned the same to a certain George McCormick, who being
so entitled, and holding the said assignments, delivered
the same to David Clark, surveyor of said county, for the
purpose of making a survey of the said land; that a survey
was made thereof by the said surveyor in the name of said George
McCormick, which said surveyor made a certificate thereof, wherein
the said land was called McCormick's Frolick, which certificate
was returned to the land-office and is now remaining there; and
that the said George McCormick, afterwards, for a valuable consideration,
assigned his interest in said certificate to him the said
John Norris; that the said two abovementioned assignments were
lost by the said David Clark, therefore, RESOLVED, That the
chancellor, on the application of John Norris, of John, of Harford
county, to be made to him as judge of the land-office, be authorised
to inquire into the circumstances relating to the above recited
certificate for the land called McCormick's Frolick, and if the |
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