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CHAP. 57. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
all contracts and engagements made and entered into by the vestry
of the said parish before the passage of the act of assembly, passed
at November session, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight,
entitled, An act for the establishment of vestries for each
parish in this state, in the same manner, and to the same effect, to
all intents and purposes, that the vestry making the contract could
or would have been if the aforesaid act, entitled, An act for the
establishment of vestries for each parish in this state, had not passed. |
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Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
CHAP. LVIII.
A Supplement to the act, (a) entitled, An act to appoint
a Wreckmaster
for Worcester County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 253.
(a) 1799, ch. 82. See 1807, ch. 19. |
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WHEREAS by the original act to which this is a supplement,
it
is doubtful whether the wreckmaster is authorised to contract with
labourers, and experience has proved the necessity of such power
in the convenient execution of the said act; therefore, |
Wreckmaster may
employ labourers. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
hereafter the wreckmaster shall be and he is hereby authorised and
empowered to contract with, and hire, so many labourers as he
may deem necessary to carry into effect the purposes of the act to
which this is a supplement. |
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3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the wreckmaster
shall be entitled
to receive for his services, a sum not exceeding twenty per cent. of
the property saved, at the discretion of the county court, some one
of the judges thereof out of court, or of the orphans court of the
county.
By 1807, ch. 19, the clerk of the county,
during the vacation of the county
court, to take bond and security from the wreckmaster. |
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Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
CHAP. LIX.
A Further Additional Supplement to an act, (b) entitled,
An act relating
to public Roads in this State, and to repeal the Acts
of Assembly
therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 254.
(b) 1794, ch. 52. See 1804, ch. 9. |
Part of fifth section
of original
act repealed
† Ch. 52. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
so much of the fifth section of the said original act, passed at November
session, seventeen hundred and ninety-four †, as requires an
application in writing, signed by two thirds of the inhabitants of
any hundred or hundreds, so far as it relates to Frederick county,
be and the same is hereby repealed, and the levy court of said
county may, in their discretion, proceed as in said section is directed,
upon an application in writing, signed by a number of respectable
inhabitants of such hundred or hundreds. |
Part of seventh
section repealed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
seventh section
of the said original act, as directs the several supervisors to give
bond, with such security as shall be approved by the said justices,
be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as it relates to Frederick
county, and instead thereof, every supervisor appointed by the
levy court of said county, may, in the recess of said court, give
bond to the state of Maryland, with such security as shall be approved
of by any one of the justices of the said court, or their
clerk, provided such security shall establish, to the satisfaction of
said justice, or clerk, that he is seized and possessed, in his own |
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