DEC. SESS.
1817. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
of the money usually required for composition and improvements,
and the prayer of the petitioner appearing just and equitable,
therefore, |
Directing patents
to issue for certain
lands. |
RESOLVED, That the register of the land office for
the western
shore, be and he is hereby authorised and directed, to grant a patent
to Ann Parnham, of Charles county, for a tract or parcel of
land called Parnham's Amendment, surveyed for the said Ann
Parnham, by virtue of a warrant of resurvey granted to said Ann
Parnham out of the land office, on the thirtieth day of April, in
the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, agreeably to the certificate
of the surveyor of Charles county, bearing date the ninth
day of December eighteen hundred and seventeen, without requiring
the payment of any money for composition or improvement
thereon; provided, that all other legal charges for obtaining a patent,
are first complied with.
RESOLVED, That the register of the land office for
the western
shore be and he is hereby authorised and directed, to grant a patent
to George D. Parnham, of Charles county, for a tract or parcel
of land called Parnham's Triangle, surveyed for the said Parnham,
by virtue of a special warrant granted to said Parnham out
of the land office on the thirtieth day of April, eighteen hundred
and seventeen, without requiring the payment of any money for
composition or improvements thereon; provided, that all other legal
charges for obtaining a patent are first complied with. |
Passed Feb. 13, 1818. |
No. 46.
WHEREAS, it is essentially necessary that the decisions
which
have taken place, and which may hereafter take place, in the superior
courts of this state, should be generally known throughout
the state, and that encouragement should be given to reporters of
such decisions; therefore, |
Purchase of decisions
in the superior
courts. |
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he
is hereby directed, to purchase from the reporters of the decisions
which have taken place, and which may hereafter take place, in
the superior courts of this state, seventy-five copies of those which
have already been published, and the like number of copies of
those which may hereafter be published, and to pay the amount
thereof out of any money in the treasury.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council cause the said
books
as they shall be purchased to be forwarded and distributed as follows:
To the court of appeals for each shore, two copies; to the
court of chancery one copy; to each county court two copies; to
Baltimore city and county courts two copies; to each orphans
court one copy; to the general assembly four copies; and to the
executive one copy; to the land office for the western shore one
copy; and to the land office for the eastern shore one copy. |
Passed Feb. 12, 1818.
Requesting information
from John
L. Kerr. |
No. 47.
RESOLVED, That the honourable John L. Kerr, agent
on behalf
of the state to liquidate and settle with the general government
the necessary expenditures which were incurred by this state in
providing for the common defence during the late war, be requested,
and is hereby required, to report to this general assembly the
progress that he may have made in the accomplishment of the object
of his appointment.
RESOLVED, That a copy of the aforegoing resolution
be forthwith
transmitted to the said agent, now at the City of Washington. |
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