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THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. XXVII.
An ACT to explain and amend
the act for the better security of
the government. |
1781. |
WHEREAS male subjects of this state, who were above
eighteen years
of age, and were out of this state at the time of passing the act for the
better security of the government, on lawful purposes, in any of the
neighbouring states, or in parts beyond the seas, and have returned into
this state
since the first day of March, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, or may
hereafter
return into this state, are not by the said act subject to the treble
tax, and
other disabilities imposed by the said act for their not taking, repeating
or subscribing,
the oath of fidelity and support to this state, nor are such persons by
the
laws considered as nonjurors: For remedy whereof in future, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That every such male
person, who shall hereafter return into this state, unless he shall, within
one
month next after his return as aforesaid, take, repeat and subscribe, the
oath, or
if a quaker, menonist or dunker, the affirmation, of fidelity and support
to this
state, before the governor and council, or some magistrate of the city
or county
where he resides, shall be considered as a nonjuror within the intent of
the said
act, and he shall be subject to the treble tax, and all other disabilities
imposed on
nonjurors by that or any other act or acts. |
Persons returning,
to
take the oath,
&c. |
CHAP. XXVIII.
An ACT to prevent disaffected emigrants from settling in this state,
and to detect
and punish the disaffected, and to prevent any correspondence
or trade with the
enemy, and to punish certain misdemeanors.
To continue during the present war
with Great-Britain. Expired. |
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CHAP. XXIX.
An ACT to continue the acts
of assembly therein mentioned. |
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CHAP. XXX.
An ACT to abrogate and abolish part of the thirty-seventh article of
the form of
government. |
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CHAP. XXXI.
An ACT to abrogate and abolish the forty-fifth article of the form
of government. |
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CHAP. XXXII.
An ACT to alter part of the fifty-fifth article
of the form of government.
The conclusion of each of these three
acts expresses, that it shall be in force if confirmed by the
general assembly in the first session after the next election of delegates.
They were published as
the constitution directs those acts to be which alter or repeal any part
of the constitution; but although
those articles, which it was their object to abolish or alter, were generally
thought to have been
injudiciously adopted, such was the veneration for the constitution, and
so great the apprehensions of innovation
if once any part of it should be submitted to the spirit of reformation,
that the people did not
approve these acts, and therefore the succeeding legislature did not confirm
them. |
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CHAP. XXXIII.
An ACT to secure the certain redemption of the bills of credit emitted
by this
state,
and for which confiscated British property was pledged.
The commissioners are directed to sell
the White Marsh furnace, and Long Caln forge, lately the
property of James Russell and company, with all the lands and stock, real,
personal and mixt, belonging
to them within this state, on the following terms: Each purchaser
shall enter into bond, with two sureties,
each of whom having assessed property to double the value of the purchase
money, which is payable
in specie, or in black state money, by the 1st of January, 1786; and in
failure of payment there shall be
proceedings similar to those directed by the red money act.
Any person may exchange his black money with the treasurer
for any of the bonds taken under this
act, reckoning the interest due on each side; the treasurer, in behalf
of the state, shall thereupon give
him an assignment, and he shall be entitled, in his own name (and so may
his assignee) to the remedy
which the public has for compelling payment. If any purchaser, however,
chooses to pay ready money,
and that shall happen to be specie, it shall be kept in the treasury for
the purpose of redeeming the said
black money. |
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