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THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. XL.
An ACT to increase the allowance
of justices of the peace and jurymen.
To continue till the end of the next
session. Expired. |
1779. |
CHAP. XLI.
An ACT for the special appointment of inspectors, and to increase their
salaries
and the warehouse rent. |
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CHAP. XLII.
An ACT for the payment of the journal of accounts. |
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At a SESSION of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of
MARYLAND, begun and held at the city
of ANNAPOLIS,
on Thursday the twenty-third of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and eighty, and ended the 16th day
of May: The
following laws were enacted.
THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor. |
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CHAP. I.
An ACT for the adjournment of the general court
for the eastern shore.
From April to the 4th of September
next; and the court may continue the causes that cannot then
conveniently be trues to the next term. |
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CHAP. II.
A Supplement to the act for recruiting the quota of troops of this
state in the
American army.
Allowing to any person, enlisting between
the 1st of April and 1st of August next, the same bounties,
privileges and cloathing, as are allowed to recruits under that act. |
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CHAP. III.
An ACT to aid the proceedings of the commissioners of the tax, and
for other
purposes.
The assessment act not having been
transmitted to some of the counties in time, the commissioners had
not qualified, and the collectors could not, by the periods limited, complete
their collections. This act
appoints other days, &c. &c. |
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CHAP. IV.
An ACT to compel the attendance
of the members of the general assembly.
By a fine of £. 25 on each member
for every day's absence, without such an excuse as shall be admitted
by his respective branch of the legislature, or a written resignation.
The clerk of each house is directed
to send the respective sheriffs a copy of the orders for such fines, to
be collected and accounted for as
if they were part of the assessment.
To continue until the end of the next session.
Continued from session to session until it expired with
the session of October, 1780. |
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CHAP. V.
An ACT to vest an estate of inheritance in fee-simple of certain lands
in Anne-Arundel
county, in Basil Burgess of the same county, and to
enable him to
sell or otherwise dispose of the same. PR. |
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CHAP. VI.
A Supplement to the act for the erecting new warehouses in the town
of Bladensburg.
The original act not having been transmitted
in time, by reason of a fire which happened in the printing-office,
the assessment was not made at the time directed, but earlier, the justices
having heard of the
act, and mistaken the day. The assessment is hereby made good; and
every person therein concerned is
indemnified. |
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CHAP. VII.
An ACT for the relief of Robert Long. PR. |
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