|
EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XCIV.
An Act for the relief of Henry Alexander, of the City of Baltimore,
an Insolvent
Debtor. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 252. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 94.
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
WHEREAS Henry Alexander, heretofore carrying on
trade in the
city of Baltimore, as copartner of Isaac Lee Webster, under the
firm of Alexander, Webster, and Co. by his petition to the general
assembly of Maryland, hath set forth, from liability and misfortunes
in trade, he hath become insolvent, and unable to pay and
discharge the debts and engagements due, owing, and entered into
by him; that the said firm of Alexander, Webster, and Co. at the
time they become unable to comply with their regular negotiations,
were possessed of a considerable property in merchandise, and
stocks of different institutions, which said property the said Alexander,
Webster, and Co. have paid over to several of their creditors;
the petitioner further stated, that sometime after the failure
aforesaid, the said firm of Alexander, Webster, and Co. become
liable for large sums of money, by reason of their being endorsers
for the house of Van Wick and Dorsey, of the city of Baltimore,
who had failed, and who have since been released under the insolvent
law of the state of Maryland; the petitioner further stated,
that the preference given by the said Alexander, Webster, and Co.
as aforesaid, hath been adjudged as undue and improper, within the
intent and meaning of the insolvent laws of Maryland, and therefore
prayed that a special act might pass to relieve him from all
debts, covenants, contracts and engagements, as well in his individual
and in his copartnership capacity as aforesaid; and the general
assembly being of opinion that under the circumstances of
the case that the prayer of the petitioner is reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the county court of Baltimore, or any one of the judges of the
sixth judicial district, in the recess of the said court, upon the application
of Henry Alexander, of the city of Baltimore, be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, to extend to him the
full benefit and relief of the act of assembly passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and four *, entitled, An act for the relief
of sundry insolvent debtors, and the supplements thereto, notwithstanding
the aforesaid undue preference, which the said Henry
Alexander, or the firm of Alexander, Webster, and Co. may before
the passage of this act have given to any of his or their creditors,
and without requiring that the said Henry Alexander should
produce the assent of his creditors as prescribed by the act aforesaid,
and upon his, the said Henry Alexander, complying with all
the other requisites of the said act, and the supplements thereto,
the said court or judge, shall extend and afford to the said Henry
Alexander all the benefit of the said act for the relief of insolvent
debtors, and the supplements thereto, in as full, large, ample and
beneficial a manner, as the said Henry Alexander might or would
have had. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws to be
extended to him.
* Ch. 110. |
_____
|
|
CHAP. XCV.
An Act to open a Road in Frederick County. Lib. TH. No.
2, fol. 253. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
Peter Shover, Peter Zollinger and James Hughes, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, |
Commissioners appointed
and authorised
to lay out
and open a road. |
|
 |
