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CHAP.
XIV.
What persons
are within the
meaning of
this act. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
said states: For removing the same, Be
it enacted, That every commissioned
and non-commissioned officer and private man, who, since the commencement
of
hostilities on the nineteenth of April, seventeen hundred and seventy-five,
has been
or shall be drawn forth for the common defence (and not for the service
of any
particular state) or who has turned out or shall hereafter turn out
voluntarily to
oppose the enemies of the said United States, upon any sudden attach or
invasion,
or upon any enterprise carried on under their authority, and in such service
has
lost, or shall lose, a limb, or has been, or shall be, otherwise disabled
as aforesaid,
shall be deemed and taken within the meaning of this act, and entitled
to the benefit
thereof. |
Officers, &c.
capable of doing
garrison
duty, to be
formed into a
corps of invalids,
&c. |
VIII. And be
it further enacted, That all such officers and soldiers, who may
be entitled to the provisions under this act, and shall be found to be
capable of
doing guard or garrison duty, may be formed into a corps of invalids, and
subject
to the said duty; and all officers, marines and seamen, of the navy, who
shall be
entitled to the same provision, and shall be found capable of doing any
duty on
board the navy, or any department thereof, shall be liable to be so employed.
And if any such commissioned or non-commissioned officer, or private man,
who
shall be found capable of doing guard or garrison duty, or any such officers,
marines
and seaman, of the navy, who shall be found capable of doing some duty
on
board the navy, or some department thereof, shall refuse so to do, when
lawfully
required, such person, so refusing, shall be struck off the list of pensioners,
unless
the governor and council think than an exception should be made in his
favour,
and an exemption granted him from such service, a certificate of which
opinion
he shall produce previous to his receiving his said person. |
Persons not able
to procure
certificates to
apply to the
governor, &c. |
IX. And,
whereas it may happen that many persons maimed or disabled as
aforesaid, by reason of their falling into the hands of the enemy, the
deaths of
their officers and surgeons, or other accidents, may not have it in their
power to
procure their certificates required by this act; Be
it therefore enacted, That in
such cases, application shall be made to the governor and council by such
maimed
or disabled person as aforesaid, and, upon making it appear to them, by
satisfactory
proof, that he was maimed or disabled in the manner above mentioned,
he shall be entitled to and receive a pension in like manner as if he produced
the
certificate before directed, and the governor and council, on such satisfactory
proof being made to them, shall direct the justices of the said orphans
court to
draw on the treasurer for such pension as the cases before mentioned. |
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CHAP. XV.
An ACT to continue the acts
of assembly therein mentioned. |
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CHAP. XVI.
An ACT for the disposal of the free-school lands in Calvert county,
and other
purposes therein mentioned.
The inhabitants of Calvert having,
at their own expence, erected a seminary of learning at Lower
Marlborough, this act gives it the name of Lower Marlborough Academy, appoints
for it 10 trustees,
one of whom is to be president, invests theses trustees with the same rights,
powers and privileges,
as are possessed by visitors of free-schools, and gives them a like manner
of succession. Any five
are empowered to act in all cases, but more particularly to recover all
monies in the hands of the
visitors of the free-school, or of the treasurers belonging to the said
school, to make, alter and amend,
the rules of the academy, and to hold the land on which it stands, lately
purchased from John Hamilton
Smith.
Three of the trustees are particularly named, any two
of whom may sell the free-school lands, and pay
the purchase money to their own corporation. |
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CHAP. XVII.
An ACT for the regulation of officers fees.
To continue until the first day of
November, 1779, &c. Expired, another act under the same title
having first passed. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
An ACT to increase the allowance of magistrates, and for other purposes
therein
mentioned.
To continue until the first day of
November, 1779, &c. Expired, another act for the same purpose
having first passed. |
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