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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
Daniel Conn, Samuel Sterrett and George Warner, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to superintend the erection of a
penitentiary for the reception of the criminals condemned, or who
may be condemned under the laws of this state, and that the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised
and directed to agree on a site for the said buildings, and
to propose a plan to be submitted to the executive of this state, and
when approved of by them, to contract for and superintend the
execution of the same; and for the purpose of defraying the expense
thereof, the amount of the proceedings of the fines, forfeitures,
licences, and amerciaments, to be collected within the city and county
of Baltimore, except such as now are raised and appropriated to
the use of that city, be and they are hereby appropriated; and the
said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
to receive the same, to be accounted for annually, with the expenditure
thereof, to the legislature, and to borrow money, if necessary,
on the credit of the said taxes; provided, that the whole sum of
money to be raised in virtue of this resolution shall not exceed the
sum of twenty thousand dollars. |
NOV. SESS.
1804. |
No. 16.
WHEREAS the contract entered into between the state,
by its
agent Randolph Brandt Latimer, of the one part, and James Williams
and Uriah Forrest, of the other part, hath been vacated by a
decree of the court of chancery, passed on the eighth day of January,
eighteen hundred and five, in a cause wherein the said James
Williams, Uriah Forrest and Benjamin Stoddert, were complainants,
and the state of Maryland, or Luther Martin, the attorney-general,
defendants, and the bonds given for the purchase money
ordered by the authority of the said court to be delivered up: And
whereas a certain sum hath been paid into the treasury under the
said contract: And whereas the aforesaid Uriah Forrest hath
passed
his bond to the state of Maryland, dated on the twenty-seventh
day of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, conditioned for
the payment of the sum of six hundred and thirteen pounds, eleven
shillings and six-pence current money, and the said James Williams
and John Guyer have passed their bonds to the said state,
dated on or about the first day of June, seventeen hundred and
ninety-nine, conditioned for the payment of eight hundred and
thirty-four pounds twelve shillings and six-pence current money,
and the said petitioner being willing that the aforesaid money, so
paid into the treasury under the contract aforesaid, should, in the
first place, be applied to the discharge of the said two last mentioned
bonds, as of the time on which the said money was paid into
the treasury, and it being a matter of judicial cognizance, whether
any and what sum the state ought to refund to the petitioner, or the
other parties to the contract herein first before stated; therefore,
RESOLVED, That the court of chancery determine in the case aforesaid
according to the principles of equity, whether any and what
sum is to be refunded to the complainants, or any of them; and if
the said court shall determine that any money shall be refunded by
the state, then the same shall be applied, in the first place, to the
payment of the bond given by Uriah Forrest as aforesaid, secondly,
in payment of the bond given by James Williams and John
Guyer as aforesaid, as of such times respectively as the said court |
Chancery court
to determine what
sum shall be refunded
James
Williams, Uriah
Forrest, and Benjamin
Stoddert. |
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