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THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor.
IV. WHEREAS many evil disposed citizens of
this state have purchased up
tobaccoes and paid the same to the sheriffs or collectors of this state,
for many of
the citizens of this state, in discharge of their tobacco tax, without
being requested
so to do, and have taken bills, bonds or notes, for the payment of
greater
sums of money than the tobaccoes paid to the said sheriff amounted
to at the
market price at the time of taking the said bill, bond or note:
Be it enacted,
That all bills, bonds or notes, given as aforesaid, shall be void and of
none effect,
to recover any greater sums of money than the market price of the tobacco
actually
paid to the sheriff or collector at the time of the payments. |
1780.
CHAP.
XXI.
Bills, &c.
given for
tobacco,
void,
&c. |
CHAP. XXII.
An ACT for emitting bills of credit to the value of five thousand four
hundred
pounds sterling, for the convenience of change, and
issuing them in exchange
for the bills of equal value now in circulation.
The said bills are to be on the same
footing as if emitted under the act of June, 1782, ch. 24, and the
bills issued by that act, and the act of the present session, ch. 5, and
the bills emitted under the old government,
and by conventions, shall be all on the same footing, and be alike a tender
and payment in
the manner directed by the last recited act.
N. B. It may not be improper here to mention what
were the emissions under the conventions. At a
convention which began on the 26th of July, 1775, it was determined, for
the defence of the province,
for promoting the manufacture of salt-petre, for erecting a powder mill,
and for several other purposes, to
emit paper to the amount of 266,666 2/3 dollars. On the 13th of December
following, the convention
passed a resolve for emitting to the amount of 535,111 1/9 dollars more,
bu 266,666 2/3 of these were appropriated
to exchanging the last emission. The last convention, also, emitted
to the amount of 535,111 1/9
dollars, 120,000 of which were appropriated to exchanging the remaining
part of the first emission still in
the hands of the people. All these emissions were unsupported by
funds, but the convention declared
they should be redeemed by the first of January, 1786,
by taxes, or other legislative provision. The
fifth act of this session has indeed made a legislative provision.
By that act the state has exonerated itself
from the engagements of the conventions, by giving one dollar in a new
emission, supported by ample
funds, for 40 dollars of the convention emissions, for the redemption of
which only the public faith was
plighted. |
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CHAP. XXIII.
An ACT to continue an act, entitled, An act for the regulation of
officers fees, and for other purposes. |
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BE it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That an act, entitled, An
act for the regulation of officers fees, passed at a session of assembly,
begun
and held at the city of Annapolis, on the eighth day of November, seventeen
hundred and seventy-nine, except the seventeenth, twenty-first and twenty-second
clauses thereof, shall be and is hereby continued, and shall be and remain
in full force and virtue, for and during the term of one year, and unto
the
end of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter. |
Part of an act
continued. |
II. And be it
enacted, That the several county justices in their respective counties,
at the time of assessing their county charges, shall and are hereby empowered
and directed to allow to the clerk of their respective courts, in their
county levies,
in full satisfaction for warrants to the overseers of the highways, constables
warrants, assisting in laying and apportioning the county levy, and all
other services
to be done for their respective counties, and by order of the justices
for the time
being, the following sums, viz. For Saint-Mary's, Kent, Anne-Arundel,
Charles,
Somerset, Dorchester, Baltimore, Cæcil, Prince-George's, Talbot,
Queen-Anne's,
Worcester, Frederick, and Washington counties, ten pounds, in Spanish dollars,
at the rate of seven shillings and six-pence per dollar, or the value thereof
in paper
money; for Calvert, Harford, Caroline, and Montgomery counties, seven
pounds ten shillings like money; and all the respective county clerks within
this
state for the time being shall, and they are hereby obliged to do all the
said services,
and such others, for the use of the respective counties, as shall be required
by the
justices of the peace for each respective county, from time to time, and
at all times
hereafter, for and in consideration of the said allowance. |
Allowance to
county clerks,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That all fines, forfeitures and penalties, imposed or
inflicted,
and set in tobacco, by any act of assembly made before the fourth day of
July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, and now subsisting and in force,
and all
fees and allowances to officers or others, given by any such laws, and
all fines,
forfeitures and penalties, fees and allowances, to be imposed, created,
inflicted, |
How fines,
&c. are to be
discharged,
&c. |
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