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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
No. 42.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he
is hereby directed to pay to the order of John Leeds Kerr, the
agent for settling the claims of Maryland with the general government,
the sum of eight hundred and fifty dollars, from any unappropriated
money in the treasury, in part compensation for his
services. |
DEC. SESS.
1817.
Passed Feb. 11, 1818.
In favour of John
Leeds Kerr. |
No. 43.
WHEREAS the encouragement given negroes running
away
from their owners in this state, and the harbouring the same by
sundry persons in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and state of
Delaware, has long been a serious inconvenience to the owners of
slaves, and is a growing evil injurious in its consequences even to
slaves themselves; therefore, |
Passed Feb. 13, 1818. |
Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the
governor be authorised and required to open a correspondence immediately
with the executives of Pennsylvania and Delaware, stating
at large the grievances under which the citizens of this state
labour, in consequence of the protection given in those states to
runaway negro slaves, and the difficulty which the owners experience
in recovering them even after they are discovered, and requesting
the said executives to use their influence with their respective
legislatures, by recommending such laws as shall have a
tendency to remedy the grievances complained of, and to report
the result of the said correspondence to the next general assembly
of Maryland. |
Relative to runaway
negroes. |
No. 44.
RESOLVED, That the printer to the state be allowed
twenty days
in addition to the time now limited by law for printing the laws,
and votes and proceedings of the present session, and that the
treasurer of the western shore advance to him the sum of six hundred
dollars, in part of the salary allowed him on the civil list for
the present year, upon his giving bond and security as required
by the law of December session eighteen hundred and sixteen,
chapter ninety-eight. |
Passed Feb. 13, 1818.
In favour of the
printer to the state. |
No. 45.
WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly
by the petition
of George D. Parnham, that a warrant of resurvey, granted
out of the land office to Ann Parnham of Charles county, was
executed on the ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventeen,
and that the said resurvey included lands as vacancy
which, though never patented, had been fairly purchased of the
late proprietary government, and fully paid for, and to which the
said Ann Parnham and George D. Parnham have derived an equitable
right, the former of an estate for life, and the latter of a reversion
in fee on the determination of said life; and that a special
warrant granted out of the land office to said George D. Parnham,
of Charles county, was executed on the tenth of December,
eighteen hundred and seventeen, and that the whole of the land
included therein had also been purchased as aforesaid, and
paid for, though never patented, and that the said George D.
Parnham had derived an equitable and just title thereto; and
the said petitioner, praying that patents may issue for the
lands included in both the said surveys, without the payment |
Passed Feb. 13, 1818. |
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