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CHAP.
XXIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
of the legislature, without creating uses and demands,
can produce it; and that it is a vain attempt,
in a free government, to combat general opinion by laws. By opinion,
applied to bills of credit, is to be
understood a firm belief and persuasion, that they will be equal to, and
answer all the purposes of specie.
But from a general clamour for an emission, is by no means to be inferred
this opinion; because that clamour
may most probably proceed from an expectation of deriving an advantage
from their depreciation.
These few remarks, it is presumed, may be pardonable, but the nature of
this work will not afford room
for all the observations which suggest themselves on this fruitful and
most important subject. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
An ACT to ascertain officers fees in special courts. |
Allowance to
judges of special
courts,
&c. |
BE it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That there shall be allowed
to each judge of any special court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery,
twenty shillings specie per day for his attendance in court, besides
the like allowance, if he lives out of the county in which such court shall
be
held, for each day's itinerant charges in going to and returning from such
court;
and that all ministerial officers, belonging to or attending such court,
shall be
entitled to the same fees as are or may be chargeable by law for the like
services
performed at the same time in the general court. |
| Continuance. |
II. This act to continue three years, and
to the end of the next session of assembly
which shall happen thereafter.
Continued for three years, &c.
by the act of 1784, ch. 83. |
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CHAP. XXV.
A further supplement to the act to raise the supplies for the year
seventeen hundred
and eighty-one.
Where persons have paid black state
or continental money, for the tax, they shall be credited for it
at the rate of three for one. Officers of the revenue are allowed,
upon affidavit, to pay in any of the old
continental bills, received by them before the 20th of March last; and
the red money, for taxes, duties,
fines and forfeitures, is to be received at par. |
Collection of
tax on certain
property suspended,
&c. |
XX. WHEREAS it is represented by the honourable
le Chevalier d'Anmours,
consul-general for his Most Christian Majesty for this and the four southern
states,
that the Americans settled in France enjoy the most unlimited liberty with
respect
both to their persons and properties, that not one of them is subject to
any personal
or pecuniary duty, and therefore he requested that the subjects of France,
and
their moveables, may be exempted from the payment of any taxes on such
property,
and from militia duty; Be it therefore enacted,
That the collection of
the tax on any personal property, bonâ fide belonging to any
subject of his Most
Christian Majesty, who hath or may come into this state for the purposes
of commerce,
or to be a temporary inhabitant only, and who shall be so certified by
the
consul-general of France for this state to the commissioners of the tax
where such
person shall reside, shall be suspended, until it be ascertained what privileges
the
subjects of this state shall be entitled to enjoy in France, and the general
assembly
shall take further order in the premises, and any such subject of France
shall also be
exempted from any fine for not performing military or militia duty, until
the
further order of the legislature. |
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CHAP. XXVI.
A Supplement to the act to continue and explain the powers vested in
the special
council appointed on the eastern shore.
The special council, without the control
of the constitutional executive, may draw on their own treasurer
for for two fifths of any money or tobacco in his hands at the time of
the draught, and apply it for the
defence of their shore, by calling out the select or other militia, and
fitting out and manning four barges
lately built on their shore, which shall be officered by them, and be subject
only to their command, for
the defence of the state at large. In case of an invasion, or insurrection,
or a well grounded apprehension
of either, they may order out any part of either the select or other militia,
and during an invasion, or insurrection,
they may fill up any vacancy in militia offices, until the next session
of assembly; and they
are indemnified for all the expences they have already incurred.
The constitutional executive may fill up any vacancy
in this council, each member of which is allowed
20f for each day's attendance in council; and their clerk and door-keeper
shall be allowed whatever
they may think proper.
To continue until the end of the next session.
Expired. |
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