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CHAP. 61. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
county levy, a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars,
together with six per cent. for collecting the same, for the
purpose of erecting buildings for the use and accommodation of the
poor in said county. |
Trustees authorised
to reserve the
same. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees of
the poor for
Queen-Anne's county, as commissioners appointed in the original
act to 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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Passed Jan. 4, 1807.
* 1796, ch. 8. |
CHAP. LXI.
A Further Supplement to an act* for the more effectual Collection
of
the County Charges in Allegany County Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 256. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the mode prescribed by the act to which
this is a supplement
for advertising lands lying in Allegany county, whereon
taxes are due, is expensive to the parties, without an equal benefit;
therefore, |
Commissioners to
advertise taxes
due on lands owned
by persons residing
out of county. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the
commissioners of the tax for Allegany county, or a majority of
them, are hereby directed and required, to cause to be inserted in
such newspapers of Frederick-town, Baltimore, and the eastern
shore, in the spring or summer months, as they shall think proper,
necessary and sufficient, an advertisement of a general nature,
merely giving the names of the persons owing, and of whom taxes
are claimed, which shall be inserted once a week at least, for five
weeks, in such news-papers as before are ordered to be directed,
notifying all said persons holding lands in Allegany county, and residing
out of said county, unless the county charges due on the
lands held by such persons shall be paid to the collector of Allegany
county, or his agent, within the space of sixty days after the publication
of the notice aforesaid is completed, the land so charged as
aforesaid, or such part thereof as may be necessary to raise the
sum due thereon, shall be sold to the highest bidder for the payment
of the same, and the land so sold, the commissioners aforesaid are
hereby directed, at their next usual time of making transfers, to
charge the same to the person purchasing. |
Collector to lodge
a list of the same
with agent in Baltimore. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the collector of
Allegany county
shall be and he is hereby directed to lodge with some agent or person
in the city of Baltimore, (which agent or person shall make
known to the said commissioners of the tax, and shall be by them
named as so authorised in the advertisements above directed,) a list,
expressing the name or names of such tracts of land, or number or
numbers of such lot or lots of land, together with the quantity of
acres, as also the name or names of the person or persons holding
the same, on which county charges are due, and considered as coming
under the general advertisement above directed, which person
shall be authorised to receive the amount of taxes by each person
respectively due, as stated by said list, and receipt for the same in
the name of the collector of Allegany county. |
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