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CHAP. 99.
Proprietors of opposition
stages,
not to use said
road without paying
half of the damages
assessed,
&c. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the proprietors
of any water and
land stages, in opposition to the French-town and New-Castle water
and land-stages, shall not run their wagons or stages, or wagons
or stages employed by them, on the aforesaid road when completed,
without first paying half of all the damages assessed, and expenses
of opening and making said road, and shall also pay a proportional
part towards keeping the said road in good repair. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. C.
An Act for the opening of Bridge-Street, in the Precincts of the
City
of Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 413.
Supplements, November 1812, ch. 119, and 1816, ch. 161.
This act appears to be repealed by 1817, ch. 85. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CI.
An Act for the relief of Martin Brown, an Insolvent Debtor.
Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 413. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the grand jury for St. Mary's county did,
at August
term, eighteen hundred and seven, find two several presentments
against Martin Brown, for begetting two illegitimate children upon
the body of Mary Greenwell, and the said county court having
at the said term adjudged that the said Martin Brown be committed,
until the recognizance in the sum of thirty pounds in each case,
with two securities, according to the acts of assembly in such case
made and provided; and the said Martin Brown, from his extreme
poverty, not being able to give the security required, was committed
to gaol of the county aforesaid, where he still remains: And
whereas it has been further represented to this general assembly,
by the petition of the said Martin Brown, that he must remain in
the said gaol a languishing prisoner for the terms of seven years,
under the provisions of the acts of assembly of this state relating
to persons guilty of fornication, unless he is relieved by the interposition
of the legislature; therefore, |
M. Brown entitled
to benefit of
insolvent laws, &c.
* Ch. 110.
† Ch. 98. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said Martin Brown, on his complying with the provisions of
the act of assembly passed in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and five, * entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent
debtors, and the law passed in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and six, † entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled, An act
for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, shall be entitled to the
full benefit of the said laws, and shall have his person liberated
from confinement, and have his final discharge, as the case may be,
notwithstanding his commitment above referred to, in the same
manner as if he stood committed for a debt due upon contract to
any individual. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CII.
An Act to authorise a Lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose
of finishing the Elkton Academy, purchasing Philosophical
Apparatus
for the same, and for paving and improving the Streets
of
Elkton, in Cecil County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol.
414. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is the wish of the citizens of Elkton
that their academy,
which is in an unfinished state, should be completed, and
that philosophical apparatus be purchased for the same, and that
the streets of Elkton be paved and improved, and have prayed |
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