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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XXXVII.
An Act to pay the Civil List, and other expenses of Civil Government.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 232. |
1806.
CHAP. 37.
Passed Jan. 3, 1807.
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WHEREAS those who dedicate their time, abilities
and labour, to
the public, ought to receive a reasonable and adequate compensation
for their services, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the following officers of civil government for the time being shall be
entitled to receive at the rate of the following salaries, in current
money, for the ensuing year, to wit: The treasurer of the western
shore, two thousand dollars; the treasurer of the eastern shore, four
hundred and fifty dollars; the auditor, eight hundred dollars; the
clerk of the council, eight hundred dollars; the clerk of the senate,
one hundred and fifty dollars; the clerk of the house of delegates,
three hundred dollars; the printer to the state, twelve hundred dollars;
the messenger to the council, two hundred and fifty dollars. |
Officers salaries. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all monies which
shall remain
in the treasury, after discharging the journal of accounts, and all
unappropriated money which may come into the treasury, be first
applied to the payment of the civil list for the ensuing year. |
Unappropriated
monies to be first
applied to payment
thereof. |
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CHAP. XXXVIII.
An Act to provide for recording and transcribing certain Records
and
Papers in the Register's Office of Prince-George's County.
Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 233. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that certain
records and papers appertaining to the estates of deceased persons,
require transcribing and recording in the register's office of Prince-George's
county, and that said records and papers are liable to be
damaged and lost; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the orphans court of
Prince-George's county, and they are hereby empowered and required,
to cause to be transcribed and recorded by the register of
wills of said county, in good leatherbound books, to which fair and
regular alphabets shall be prefixed, such records, and all such papers
filed in the office of the register of wills of said county, as they,
or a majority of them, in their judgment, may deem necessary and
proper to be transcribed and recorded. |
Records, &c. to
be transcribed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said register
shall receive the
same fees for his said services as he is by law entitled to for services
of a similar nature. |
Register's fees. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Prince-George's
county shall levy, on the assessable property of said county, such
sum, of money as the fees for recording and transcribing said records
and other papers may amount to, to be collected and paid
over by the collector of said county to the register aforesaid. |
Levy for recording
the same. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue in force until
the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ten, and no longer.
Further continued by November 1809,
ch. 172, and other annual general continuing
acts. |
Duration. |
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