NOV. SESS.
1807. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
when advanced in life, and as a further remuneration to him for
those services by which his country has been so essentially benefitted. |
Persons to be appointed
to locate
road from Hancock
to Cumberland. |
No. 3.
RESOLVED, That the court of Allegany county be and
they are
hereby authorised and required, to appoint two or more persons,
with authority and directions to examine and locate the road from
Hancock to Cumberland, laying off the same in the nearest, most
direct and practicable ground, and return a plot of the same, to be
recorded in Allegany county; and the said court is hereby authorised
to contract with some person or persons, (taking bond with
security for due performance,) for the expending, in such manner
as the court shall direct, and to the best advantage, in opening, and
making passable said road, the sum of two thousand dollars, which
said sum the treasurer of the western shore is directed and required
to pay to the order or orders of the said court, out of any unappropriated
money in the treasury; and the levy court of Allegany
county are hereby authorised to pay the expense attending the laying
off said road, and damages done to property within their own
county, to be estimated in the usual way. |
Appropriation
for erection of penitentiary. |
No. 4.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he is
hereby authorised and directed, to pay unto the commissioners appointed
to superintend the erection of a penitentiary, the sum of
twenty thousand dollars, out of any unappropriated money in the
treasury. |
In favour of Joseph
Howard. |
No. 5.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he is
hereby authorised and required to pay to Joseph Howard, administrator
de bonis non of Joseph Howard, deceased, Brice Howard,
executor of Thomas Cornelius Howard, deceased, of Anne-Arundel
county, and George Howard, administrator de bonis non of
Brice Howard, deceased, of the city of Baltimore, or to their order,
the sum of seventy pounds sixteen shillings and six-pence, of bills
of credit emitted in June, seventeen hundred and eighty, being the
same money heretofore deposited in the treasury on account of John
and Gilbert Buchanan, merchants, of London, upon the said Joseph
Howard, Brice Howard and George Howard, giving bond,
with security, to the state, to be approved by the said treasurer, to
refund the aforesaid sum of seventy pounds sixteen shillings and
six-pence, and interest, agreeably to the tenor of said bill of credit,
in case a certificate shall at any time hereafter be produced to the
treasurer which issued from the treasury of the western shore,
acknowledging, that on the twenty-seventh day of June, seventeen
hundred and eighty-one, Brice Howard paid into the treasury, for
Joseph Howard and Company, the sum of two thousand eight
hundred and thirty-three pounds six shillings and eight-pence, by
virtue of an act of assembly of this state, passed at October session,
seventeen hundred and eighty, entitled, An act for calling
out of circulation the quota of this state of the bills of credit issued
by congress, and the bills of credit emitted by acts of assembly
under the old government, and by the resolves of convention. |
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