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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and Delaware canal company, or any other canal company,
from cutting and making a canal across sid New-Castle and
French-town turnpike road.
See 1815, ch. 9, s. 7. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 64. |
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CHAP. LXV.
An Act to repeal and abolish the forty-fifth Article of the Constitution
and Form of Government.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 218. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the forty-fifth article of the constitution and form of government
be and the same is hereby repealed and utterly abolished. |
Article repealed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if this act shall
be confirmed by
the general assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the
first session after such new election, as the constitution and form
of government directs, that in such case this act, and the alteration
of the constitution and form of government therein contained, shall
be taken and considered, and be valid, as a part of the said constitution
and form of government, to all intents and purposes, any
thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
This act confirmed by 1810, ch. 78. |
This act, if confirmed,
to be a
part of the constitution. |
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CHAP. LXVI.
An Act for the relief of John Campbell, of Queen-Anne's County.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 219. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that John
Campbell, of Queen-Anne's county, has been engaged in the mercantile
business, and has suffered considerable losses in said business,
and that he has lost a valuable vessel in the West-Indies,
which has rendered him unable to pay his debts: And whereas the
said Campbell has followed the sea for several years past, and has
not had a fixed residence in the state for the last two years, and
is
thereby precluded from taking the benefit of the law for the relief
of sundry insolvent debtors, and prays a special act in his favour;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the judges or any judge of Queen-Anne's county court, be and they,
or any one of them, are hereby authorised and directed, to extend
to John Campbell has followed the sea for several years past, and has
not had a fixed residence in the state for the two last years, and
is
thereby precluded from taking the benefit of the law for the relief
of sundry insolvent debtors, and prays a special act in his favour;
therefore, |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges
or judge be, and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, without the said John
Campbell obtaining the assent of two thirds in amount of his creditors,
to extend and afford to the said John Campbell all the benefits,
advantages and provisions, of the aforesaid act, and the supplements
thereto, in the same manner, and upon the same terms
and conditions as if he had obtained the assent of two thirds of
his creditors to his release under the same. |
Judges authorised
to extend the benefit
of acts without
producing assent
of two-thirds
in amount, &c. |
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