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CHAP. 53. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
said regents and their successors, so as most effectually to answer
the valuable ends of the act of incorporation, towards the general
advancement and promotion of medical knowledge. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. LIV.
An Act authorising Alexis Boone, late Sheriff of Prince-George's
County, to complete his Collections. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 364. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808.
* 1805, ch. 110. |
CHAP. LV.
A Further Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act for the relief
of
sundry
Insolvent Debtors. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 365. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS doubts are entertained as to the meaning
and construction
of the words " undue and improper preference to any
creditor or creditors or security," contained in the ninth section of
the act to which this is a supplement; therefore, |
Certain deeds declared
an undue
preference to creditors. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
any deed, conveyance, transfer, assignment or delivery, of any
property, real, personal or mixed, of any debts, rights or claims, to
any creditor or creditors, security or securities, made by any person
with a view or under an expectation of being or becoming an
insolvent debtor, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be,
an undue and improper preference to such creditor or creditors or
security, within the true intent and meaning of the said ninth section
of the said act. (a)
(a) See
November 1812, ch. 77, declaring all such deeds, &c. to be void. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. LVI.
An Act to prevent Swine from going at large in the Town of Belle-Air,
in Harford County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 365.
This act repealed by 1808, ch. 86. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808.
† 1802, ch. 43. |
CHAP. LVII.
A Further Supplement to the act, † entitled, An act to lay
out and make
a public Road from the Black House to the Pennsylvania
line, in
Harford County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 366. |
Preamble.
‡ 1806, ch. 44. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of Thomas Poteet and Thomas Poteet, junior, that a law
passed at the last session of assembly ‡ authorising Thomas Poteet
and Thomas Poteet, junior, to have a jury summoned to ascertain
the damages occasioned by the road being laid through their land,
leading from the Black House to the Pennsylvania line, and the
said Thomas Poteet and Thomas Poteet, junior, proceeded under
the original act and its supplements, to which this is a further
supplement, and had a jury summoned, which said jury proceeded
and made out their verdict, and returned the same to the levy court
of Harford county, and the said court being of opinion that they
were not authorised to levy the money agreeably to the return of
the aforesaid jury, on account of an error in the law, the word
Black Horse being inserted instead of the word Black House; therefore, |
Levy court authorised
to receive
verdict and levy
amount. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Harford county be and they are hereby authorised
and directed to receive the verdict so as aforesaid made out by the
aforesaid jury, in the same manner, and to have the same effect, |
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