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CHAP. 24.
Passed Jan. 5, 1805.
* 1803, ch. 85. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XXIV.
A Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act for erecting Buildings
for
the use of the Poor of Queen-Anne's County, and for
other purposes.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 550. |
Levy authorised
for purchasing
land and erecting
buildings. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the
justices of levy court of Queen-Anne's county be and they are hereby
authorised and empowered to assess and levy, on the assessable
property in said county, at the time of laying the next county levy,
a sum of money, not exceeding two thousand dollars, together with
six per cent. for collecting the same, for the purpose of purchasing
land, and erecting thereon buildings, for the use and accommodation
of the poor in said county. |
To be paid to trustees
for the poor. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees of
the poor for Queen-Anne's
county, as commissioners appointed in the original act
which this is a supplement, or a majority of them, shall be and they
are hereby authorised and empowered, to demand and receive from
the collector of said county, all monies levied and assessed for their
use in pursuance of this act, as soon as the same shall become due
by law, and in case the collector shall refuse or neglect to pay the
same, the said commissioners shall have the same remedy for recovering
the same as is prescribed by the fifth section of the said
original act to which this is a supplement. |
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CHAP. XXV.
An Act to continue an act, entitled, An act relative to the Administration
of Justice in this State, and to repeal the Acts of
Assembly therein
mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 551. |
† Ch. 74. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
an act, entitled, An act relative to the administration of justice in
this state, and to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned, passed
at November session, eighteen hundred and one, † except the ninety-sixth
sections thereof, be and the same is hereby continued to the
first day of October, eighteen hundred and ten, and until the end
of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter, and
the salaries of the several chief justices shall hereafter be paid in
the manner directed by the eighteenth section of the act hereby continued. |
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Passed Jan. 5, 1805. |
CHAP. XXVI.
A Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act to establish
and regulate
a Market at Bridge-Town, in Kent County, and for other
purposes
therein mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 552.
(a) 1797, ch. 28. Other supplements, 1800, ch. 66, and 1817,
ch. 196. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Bridge-town in Kent county, and
Sand-town, in Queen-Anne's county, that they experience many inconveniencies
from the want of sufficient powers being lodged in the
commissioners of the said towns to make and establish such regulations
and ordinances as are or may be fitted to their particular
circumstances, wants and occasional exigencies; |
Commissioners
may enact by-laws
and ordinances. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said commissioners of Bridge-town, (a) in Kent county, and
Sand-town, (a) in Queen-Anne's county, shall have full power and
(a) By 1817, ch. 196, the two
towns are considered as one, and called Millington. |
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