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CHAP. 17. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the poor in the several counties therein designated, and to allow
the said Anne Mills an annual pension, not exceeding thirty dollars,
to be paid at such time, and to such person, as the said trustees
shall direct; the amount of said pension shall be levied in the
same manner as other expenses of the poor-house in the said county
are. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XVIII.
A Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act for erecting
a Village at
Choptank Bridge, in Caroline County, and for other purposes
therein
mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 371.
(a) 1791, ch. 8. See 1806, ch. 45. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by an act passed at November session, one
thousand
seven hundred and ninety-one, entitled, An act for erecting a village
at Choptank bridge, in Caroline county, and for other purposes
therein mentioned, certain commissioners were appointed to
survey any quantity of land, not exceeding one hundred acres, contiguous
to Choptank bridge, in Caroline county, and the same,
when surveyed, to be erected into a village, and to be called and
known by the name of Greensborough. And whereas by the death,
removal or refusal to act, of the said commissioners, the provisions
of the original act was not complied with; therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Caleb Boyer, Nehemiah Townshend, Timothy Caldwell, Dorrington
Chance and William Crawford, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners of the village of Greensborough, in Caroline
county. |
| Their powers. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
are hereby
authorised and empowered to exercise all the powers vested in
the commissioners appointed under the act to which this is a supplement. |
How vacancies are
to be filled. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever a vacancy
shall happen
in the board of commissioners, by death, removal out of the said
village, or refusal to act, the remainder of said commissioners, or a
majority of them, shall proceed to appoint some person or persons
within the said village to fill the vacancy or vacancies so happening. |
Geese or swine
running at large
may be seized. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for any
person (b) residing within the limits of the said village, after the
first day of April next, to seize and secure any geese or swine that
may be found running at large within the limits of the village aforesaid,
belonging to any person residing therein, and the same retain
in his, her or their possession, till the owner or owners thereof
shall pay the sum of five shillings for every hog or half dozen of
geese, and a proportionable sum for every goose, so taken up, one
half for the use of the person or persons taking up and securing the
same, and the other half to be applied to the use and improvement
of said village, in such manner as the commissioners, or a majority
of them, shall direct; and in case the owner or owners of swine
and geese seized and secured as aforesaid, shall not, within three
days after notice of such seizure, pay the aforesaid sum of five
shillings for every hog or half dozen geese, and in proportion for
every goose, seized as aforesaid, to the person or persons seizing
the same, in such case the whole of such seizure shall be absolutely
(b) By 186, ch. 45, and 1807,
ch. 60, the bailiff of the village to seize geese, &c. |
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