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CHAP. 46. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
lands, where the same may be held by lessees for life, or for
years, and where the unexpired term of the last mentioned lease
shall amount to twenty-one years or upwards, provided the leases
under which the lands are held shall have been duly executed and
recorded. |
Commissions to
have effect, &c.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
thus to be granted,
when duly executed and returned by the commissioners, and
confirmed by the county court, as is prescribed by the original act
to which this is a further additional supplement, shall have the same
effects, to all intents and purposes, as if the provisions of the said
original act had extended to the cases herein mentioned; Provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the right,
title or interest, of any reversioner or remainder, in and to the
land so to be marked and bounded. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. XLVII.
An Act to authorise and empower the Levy Court of Queen Anne's
County to assess and levy a sum of money for
the purposes therein
mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 42. |
Allowance to bailiffs
and constables. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the bailiffs and constables of Queen-Anne's county, while attending
the county courts, shall each receive two dollars for every day he
may attend the same. |
| Constables fees. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for every warrant
of a criminal
nature, issued by any justice of the peace, and served by any constable,
the constable so serving the same, and producing the person
against whom the warrant issued, before competent authority, and
executing the determination thereof, shall be entitled to receive fifty
cents for his services, and that the several sums contemplated
to be paid by this act for executing criminal process, if supported
by proper vouchers, shall, by the justices of the levy court of Queen-Anne's
county, be assessed and levied on the assessable property
of the said county.
See November 1809, ch. 169. |
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Passed Dec. 23.
* 1807, ch. 68. |
CHAP. XLVIII.
An Act to remit certain forfeitures incurred under the act *, entitled,
An act to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the
City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 42. |
Forfeitures, on
petition, may be
annulled.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
any subscriber, or the assignees of any subscriber, for shares in
the said company, who have heretofore incurred a forfeiture of his,
her or their shares, under and by force of the said law, may have
the same annulled, remitted and made void, on petition to the president
and directors of the said company; Provided, no remittance
of any forfeiture under this act shall take place, unless by the assent
of two-thirds of the whole board of directors next hereafter to be
chosen, nor without the payment of principal and interest of the
instalment neglected to be paid. |
This law to be
published, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and directors
shall, thirty day previous to the next election of directors, cause this
law to be published in two or more newspapers of the city of Baltimore,
in one paper at Easton, one at Frederick-town, one at the
city of Washington, and in the Maryland Gazette. |
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