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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
collectors usual commissions for collecting respectively, shall be
assessed, levied and collected, in the same manner as other county
charges and public dues for the ensuing year shall be assessed,
levied and collected; and the said several collectors, and their securities
respectively, shall be answerable for, and pay the said
several and respective sums of money to the commissioners aforesaid,
or either of them, or their order, at any time after the said
sums of money have or ought to be collected; and if any of the said
collectors shall neglect or refuse to pay the respective assessments,
the commissioners, or the major part of them, are hereby authorised
and required to sue and recover the same from such collector,
or their securities, or his or their executors or administrators respectively,
in an action of trespass on the case, in which it shall be
sufficient to declare for so much money had and received by the defendant
for the use of the plaintiffs. |
1808.
CHAP. 105. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the said
commissioners
shall die, or remove out of the county of which he is a commissioner,
before the completion of the said new bridge, or shall refuse
to act, the survivor or survivors, shall appoint some other person in
his or their stead, and the person or persons so appointed shall
have the same power and authority as is vested in the commissioners
named in this act. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after
the erecting and
building the said bridge it shall be kept up and repaired at the
joint expense of the said three counties in the proportions before
mentioned. |
Bridges to be kept
up and repaired
at the expense of
the counties. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or some
one or two of them, shall render to the justices of the levy courts
of the respective counties respectively, at their levy courts next
after the expenditure of the said monies, a just, full and fair account
of all money by them laid out and expended by virtue of
this act; and if, after completing the said bridge, any surplus money
that shall remain in the hands of the said commissioners, or
any of them, the same shall be repaid, (in the same proportions as
heretofore directed to be paid,) by the said commissioners, or some
one of them, to the justices of the levy court, or to any four of
them, of the respective counties, to be applied towards defraying
the public charge of the said counties respectively. |
Account of monies
expended to
be laid before levy
court. |
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CHAP. CVI.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money to enlarge
and
improve the Hospital in the Vicinity of the City of
Baltimore, and
for other purposes. Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 99.
See 1797, ch. 102; 1811, ch. 140; 1816, ch. 156. |
Passed Dec. 24. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Hindman, James Calhoun, junior, George Brown, Samuel
McKim, John Walraven, Stewart Brown, James Bosley, Nicholas
Brice, Edme Ducatel, Peter Chatard, Colin Mckenzie and James
Smyth, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised
to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery or lotteries, and to
sell and dispose of the tickets, as well in the city of Baltimore as
in any other part of the state, clear of city taxes, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding, for raising a sum of money, not exceeding
forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of erecting additional |
Scheme may be
proposed. |
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