NOV. SESS.
1804. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
shore shall refund to them respectively, or their assigns or representatives,
legally entitled to receive the same, the money so by
them stated to have been overpaid, or such part thereof as shall be
in the said decree mentioned; and the said treasurer shall pay, out
of any unappropriated money in the treasury, the several sums
which shall by the decree of the chancellor be directed to be paid
to the said purchasers respectively, their assigns or legal representatives. |
Treasurer to subscribe
for shares
in the Union
Bank of Maryland. |
No. 11.
RESOLVED, That he treasurer of the western shore
be and he
is hereby required and authorised to subscribe, on behalf of this
state, in the Union Bank of Maryland, four hundred and twenty-four
shares of the shares reserved for the use of this state in said
bank, and immediately to pay to the president and directors thereof
the amount of said shares so subscribed, out of the second instalment
and interest received from the United States on the loan
made by this state for the use of the city of Washington. |
Register to receive
patent issued
to John Maddox. |
No. 12.
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 John Maddox, of Somerset county, for a tract of
land called Maddox's Conclusion, containing four hundred and
eighty-three acres and one quarter of an acre of land, bearing date
on the third day of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven,
and erase the words " The Lyon's Den," in every place in the
said patent and certificate, and insert, in lieu thereof, the words
" Denwood's Den," throughout the said patent and certificate, and
that he alter and correct the record books in which the said patent
and certificate hath been recorded, so as to correspond with the said
patent and certificate, when amended, and the error therein corrected
as aforesaid, or be construed to affect, the right or title which any
other person or persons shall or may have acquired of, in and to,
the said land, or any part thereof, prior to the passage of this resolution,
but that all such rights shall be of the same effect, and have
the same avail, as if this resolution had never passed, any thing
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. |
In favour of Joshua
Barrett. |
No. 13.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he
is hereby required and directed to pay, annually, to Joshua Barrett,
a late sergeant in the revolutionary war, a sum of money,
in quarterly payments, equal to the half pay of a sergeant during
the war aforesaid, as a further remuneration to the said Joshua
Barrett for services rendered his country, and as a relief from the
indigence and misery which attend his decrepitude and old age. |
In favour of Wm.
B. Rasin. |
No. 14.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the eastern shore
be and he is
hereby directed and required to pay unto William B. Rasin, of Kent
county, late a lieutenant in the revolutionary war, or his order, a
sum of money equal to half pay as a 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. |
Commissioners to
superintend the
erection of a Penitentiary. |
No. 15.
RESOLVED, That John E. Howard, Thomas Dixon, Josias
Pennington,
Thomas McElderry, Robert C. Long, Levi Hollingsworth, |
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