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CHAP. 40.
Passed Dec. 19. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XL.
An Act for the relief of William Works, of Cecil County. Lib.
JG.
No. 3, fol. 407. A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 19. |
CHAP. XLI.
An Act for the relief of Frederick Saler, of Frederick County.
Lib.
JG. No. 3, fol. 408. A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 19.
* 1791, ch. 70. See
ch. 39. |
CHAP. XLII.
A Further Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act to straighten
and
amend the public Roads in Harford County, and for other
purposes.
Lib. JG. No. 3, fol. 409.
This act repealed by 1801, ch. 28. |
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Passed Dec. 19. |
CHAP. XLIII.
An Act relating to the Public Wharf and Ferry at Chester-Town,
in Kent County. Lib. JG. No. 3, fol. 411. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it frequently happens that vessels lie in
such manner
as to obstruct the passage of the ferry boats to and from the public
wharf in Chester-town, in Kent county. |
Penalty on obstructing
ferry
boats. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and one,
if any person having the charge or command of any vessel shall
lay or place said vessel in such situation as to obstruct the ferry
boats at the aforesaid ferry from coming to and landing their passengers,
horses, carriages, or other articles by them carried, at the
ferry stairs of said ferry, such person shall forfeit and pay to
the clerk of the market in Chester-town, on demand, the sum of
five dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace as other
small debts are. |
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at wharf more
than 36 hours. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any vessel shall
lie more than
thirty-six hours at the public wharf at Chester-town aforesaid, for
the purpose of unloading her cargo, or shall come to the said wharf
empty, that in either case the person having charge or command of
said vessel shall forfeit and pay at the rate of fifteen cents per ton
for every ton's burthen the said vessel may be of, for every twenty-four
hours she shall lie at said wharf thereafter, to be recovered as
before directed. |
If a slave has
charge of such vessel,
a penalty may
be recovered of the
master. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the commander,
or person having
charge of any vessel which shall be liable to the penalties of
this act, be a slave, in that case it shall be lawful for the clerk of
the market aforesaid, and he is hereby directed, to proceed against
the master, mistress or the employer, of said slave, for the recovery
thereof, as is before directed. |
Monies how to be
applied. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all monies received
in virtue of
this act by the clerk of the market aforesaid, be paid to the justices
of the levy court for Kent county, to be by them applied to defraying
the county charges; and that the said wharf and ferry stairs be
kept in repair in the same manner as public roads and bridges are
in Kent county aforesaid. |
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Passed Dec. 19. |
CHAP. XLIV.
An Act for the relief of sundry Insolvent Debtors. Lib.
JG. No. 3,
fol. 412.
Supplements ch. 79, 80, 86. |
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