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LAWS of MARYLAND.
from returning, he may, at any time before the said first day of March,
convey
of dispose of any of his property within this state to the subject thereof;
and in
case either of the said persons who hath left this state, or who was within
it, and was, before the said thirtieth day of April, in Great-Britain,
or any part
of the British dominions, and since resided there as aforesaid, shall return
into
this state, and take the oath or affirmation of fidelity and support aforesaid
(thereby
entitling himself to the benefit of a subject from the time of the revolution,
which took place on the fourth day of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six)
shall be answerable and triable, as a subject of this state, for any act
done by him
since the said last mentioned day. |
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V. Provided,
and be it enacted, That the property of any of the said persons,
which by law is chargeable with the treble tax, shall continue chargeable
therefor. |
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VI. Provided,
That the property of Horatio Sharpe, Esquire, within this state,
shall not be seized or confiscated in consequence of this act, if he shall
return to
this state on or before the first day of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-two,
and within one month thereafter take and subscribe the oath of fidelity
and support
to this state, or dispose of his property aforesaid on or before the said
first
day of March, to some subject of this or some other of the United States;
and provided, that the property of Mistress Anne Ogle shall not be seized
or
confiscated in consequence of this act; and provided also, that all such
British
subjects who may have manifested their attachment to this state by affirmative
acts of friendship, shall be excepted out of this act, and on application
to the general
assembly, by petition, their property or the value thereof shall be restored
to them, provided such application be made on or before the first day of
March,
seventeen hundred and eighty-two. |
White-Marsh
furnace, &c.
appropriated,
&c. |
VII. And,
whereas Osgood Hanbury, Sylvanus Grove, and James Russell,
trustees of the bank stock of this state in the funds of Great-Britain,
are British
subjects, and have refused to pay the bills of exchange drawn on them in
pursuance
of the act of enable the treasurer of the western shore to draw and sell
bills
of exchange, and for an emission of bills of credit if necessary, and it
being known
to this general assembly, that the said James Russell, and the other owners
and
partners with the said James Russell, in the iron-works, lands and stock,
herein
after mentioned, are British subjects, within the description and intent
of this act,
and this general assembly being desirous to appropriate a special and sufficient
fund for redeeming and sinking the said bills of credit emitted in virtue
of the said
act; Be it enacted, That the iron
furnace, commonly called the White-Marsh
furnace, and the forges, commonly called the Long-Cain forge, in Baltimore
county, belonging to the said James Russell and company, and all the lands
and
stock, real, personal or mixed, belonging to them in company or partnership,
within this state, shall be and are hereby appropriated and set apart as
a fund for
making good and sinking the said bills of credit and the interest due or
to become
due on the same, and that the same shall be managed and disposed of as
the legislature
shall direct; and in case it should happen that the debts due to the said
James Russell and company, together with their other property in this state,
in
their respective or collective capacity, shall not be sufficient to pay
and satisfy the
debts due from respectively, or as a company, to the subjects of this
state,
the legislature will immediately, on its being made appear, appropriate
sufficient
effects of the other British subjects, as far as the value of the said
iron-works,
lands and stock, or the shares and interest of such of them whose other
property
may be deficient, for the satisfaction of the debts due to the subjects
of this state,
and which may then remain unsatisfied. |
Creditors indemnified,
&c. |
VIII. And be
it enacted, That the subjects of this state, who are creditors of
British subjects, shall be indemnified out of the effects of their individual
debtors,
and the citizens of this state (who have taken the oath or affirmation
of fidelity
and support thereto, and have manifested their attachment to the present
government,
by exerting themselves in support of the independence of America) shall |
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