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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XCVIII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act to authorise the Levy
Court
of Baltimore County to establish two additional Warehouses
in the
City of Baltimore for the inspection of Tobacco.
Lib. TH. No. 1,
fol. 149. |
1805.
CHAP. 98.
Passed Jan. 27, 1806.
* 1803, ch. 62. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful
for the levy court of Baltimore county, and they are hereby authorised,
directed and empowered, to fix the salary of the inspector or
inspectors of the warehouse or warehouses which have been or
shall be established in the city of Baltimore, agreeably to the provisions
of this act passed at November session, eighteen hundred
and three. |
Salary of inspectors
to be fixed. |
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CHAP. XCIX.
An Act to ascertain the mode of completing the title to Purchasers
of
certain Confiscated British Property, and for
other purposes. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 149.
See 1785, ch. 66. |
Passed Jan. 27, 1806. |
WHEREAS the commissioners heretofore appointed to
preserve
and make sale of confiscated British property within this state,
have, in many instances, executed deeds of conveyance to the purchasers
of such property, or their assignees, for lands sold by the
said commissioners as aforesaid, which deeds have been inoperative;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the chancellor shall be and he is hereby authorised and required,
on application of any person holding or claiming lands in virtue of
any deed of the said commissioners, and on receiving satisfactory
proof that such claimant has an equitable title to the lands claimed
or held by him, to execute a deed, in the name of the state of
Maryland, to such claimant, his heirs and assigns, for the lands to
which he is so entitled, and such deed, when recorded among the
land records of the county wherein such lands lie, shall be sufficient
effectually to transfer all the right, title and claim of any British
subject, to such lands, or which became vested in this state by
any act of assembly heretofore passed.
See ch. 93. |
Chancellor to
make deeds in certain
cases. |
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CHAP. C.
An Act for draining part of a branch called Old-Town Branch, lying
in the upper part of Caroline county. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 149. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1806. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of Thomas Hardcastle, James Clements, George Newlee,
Peter Hardcastle and Robert Hardcastle, and others, that they are
possessed of valuable lands, lying on a branch called Old Town
Branch, in Caroline county, and as there is reason to believe that
very great advantage might be derived, as well to the public as the
proprietors of the said lands, if the same could be effectually
drained, and as the object cannot be accomplished without the aid
of the legislature, by passing an act to secure the joint exertions
of all the said proprietors: And whereas it appears to this general
assembly, that it will be of public utility to extend the aid of the
legislature in order to accomplish so good an object; therefore, |
Preamble. |
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