NOV. SESS.
1805. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
the county court of each county, three copies, one for the county
court, one for the orphans court, and one for the levy court of each
county. |
Clerk of the council
to examine the
proprietary debt
books and make
out indexes to
same. |
No. 4.
WHEREAS, the proprietary debt books deposited in
the council
chamber, have received considerable injury from time and use, and
some of the indexes thereto have been lost, and others impaired and
mutilated: And whereas it would greatly tend to the future preservation
of the said debt books that the same should be well bound,
under the direction of the executive; RESOLVED, That the clerk of
the council be and he is hereby required, under the direction of the
governor and council, carefully to examine such of the indexes to
the said debt books as now remain, and to complete the same where
they shall appear to be deficient, and to make out and supply proper
indexes where the original indexes have been lost, and to cause
the said debt books and indexes, when so completed, to be bound up
in a strong, convenient and sufficient manner; and the governor and
council are hereby authorised and requested to allow and pay to the
said clerk of the council such compensation for the service hereby
required of him as they shall think reasonable and just. |
When completed
to remain in his
care. |
No. 5.
RESOLVED, That the said debt books, when so completed,
shall
continue to remain in the council chamber, under the care of the
clerk of the council, and that a copy from them, certified and proved
in the manner that is directed in other cases by the act of November
session, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, chapter one
hundred and eight, shall be received as evidence in any court of
justice of this state. |
James Cresap released
from the
payment of interest,
&c. |
No. 6.
RESOLVED, That James Cresap, of Michael, of Allegany
county,
be and he is hereby released from the payment of the nine per cent.
additional interest imposed on him by law, and arising on a balance
due the state as one of the securities of Robert Sinclair, late a sheriff
of Allegany county. |
State's right to
certain land relinquished. |
No. 7.
RESOLVED, That the right of the state of Maryland
in and to a
tract or parcel of land, lying in Allegany county, called Workman's
Fortune, and patented to Jacob Workman, on the fifty day of September,
eighteen hundred and five, shall be and the same is hereby
relinquished to said Jacob Workman, on condition of his paying
into the treasury of the western shore the sum of six pounds five
shillings on or before the first day of February next. |
Half pay allowed
David Hopkins. |
No. 8.
RESOLVED, That David Hopkins, a captain of horse
during the
late revolutionary war, whose merits as an officer stand honourably
established by letters from the late General Washington and
his aids, and by letters from Generals Heath and Maylan, and
whose infirmities, occasioned by military fatigues and hardships,
render him unable to earn a scanty subsistence for a wife and five
children, shall be and he is hereby entitled to receive half pay as a
captain of horse in the Maryland line, during life, and the treasurer
of the western shore is hereby authorised and directed to pay
the same annually to the said David Hopkins, or to his order, in
quarterly payments. |
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