NOV. SESS.
1809. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
the road already laid off and located, in the nearest direction
from Hancock to Cumberland, which said sum the treasurer of the
western shore is hereby directed and required to pay to the order
or orders of the said court, out of any unappropriated money in
the treasury. |
Persons appointed
to examine neighbourhood
between
Slade's tavern and
upper cross roads,
&c. |
No. 21.
RESOLVED, That William C. Goldsmith, Abraham Cole,
John
S. Belt, John Clendenen and William Whiteford, be and they are
hereby appointed to examine the situation of the neighbourhood
lying between Slade's tavern and the upper cross roads, and that
they report to the next general assembly, whether a road commencing
at a public road at or near Thomas Hope's, and thence running
until it intersects the road leading from Slade's tavern to
Cromwell's bridge, would, if opened and laid out, be conducive to
the public convenience, and if the said commissioners shall be of
opinion that it would be proper to open the said road, that then
they make a location of the same, and return it, with their proceedings,
to the general assembly as aforesaid. |
Chancellor, &c. to
report relative to
English Statutes,
&c. |
No. 22.
RESOLVED, That the chancellor and the judges of
the court of
appeals be and they are hereby requested to inquire, and report to
the legislature at the next session, all such English statutes as existed
at the time of the first emigration of the people of this state
into the same, and which by experience have been found applicable
to their local and other circumstances, and of such others as have
been since made in England or Great Britain, and have been introduced,
used and practised, by the courts of law or equity, and
also all such parts of the same as may be proper to be introduced and
incorporated into the body of the statute law of this state. |
Resolution to be
forwarded to them. |
RESOLVED, That the speaker of the house of delegates,
and the
president of the senate, be and they are hereby requested, to forward
a copy of the foregoing resolution to the chancellor and to
each of the judges of the court of appeals of this state. |
Patent to issue to
Cornelius Manning. |
No. 23.
RESOLVED, That the register of the land-office of
the western shore
be and he is hereby directed to issue a patent in fee to Cornelius
Manning, the heir at law of Robert Manning, deceased, for the
lots of land lying and being in the Beaver Dam Manor, in Saint-Mary's
county, the said lots of land so purchased of the state, and
paid for by Uriah Forrest and Philip Key, in behalf of Robert
Manning, deceased. |
Relative to state
debtors. |
No. 24.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be and they
are hereby
authorised and empowered, in all cases of debts due to this
state, where judgments have been obtained, and the defendants are
subject to execution, upon application being made to them, and
being fully satisfied that the said debt for which an indulgence is
prayed for is well and sufficiently secured, and upon such applicant
paying all the interests and costs thereon, to stay any
further proceedings against such debtor until the meeting of the
next general assembly; provided, that any judgment upon which
proceedings may be stayed as aforesaid shall continue and remain
in full force, and execution may be issued thereon at any time after
the expiration of such stay. |
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