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LAWS of MARYLAND.
CHAP. XXXIV.
A Supplement to the act for the defence of the bay.
The executive are empowered, at discretion,
to purchase a certain galley in Baltimore-town, and to
have a second galley built, both of which shall be completely fitted and
manned, and employed agreeably
to their discretion; but when not in actual service, these gallies are
to be unrigged and laid up, under the
care of a proper person. The executive are also authorised to procure,
fit and man, any number of barges
not exceeding eight; and for these purposes, and for other means of defending
the state, they are allowed
to appropriate £. 26,666 13 4 of the new bills about to be emitted. |
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CHAP XXXV.
A Supplement to the act to settle and adjust the accounts of the
troops of this state in the service of the United States,
and for
other purposes therein mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS doubts have been entertained by the commissioner
appointed
to settle and adjust the accounts of the troops of this state with respect
to the time to which the said depreciation should be carried: |
How sums received
since
July are to be
settled, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the said commissioner
shall adjust the accounts of the troops of this state, and settle for all
sums of
money received since the month of July last, according to the table of
depreciation
contained in the act to adjust the debts due from this state. |
Certificates to
bear interest
from Aug. 1,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the commissioner appointed, or to be appointed,
in virtue of the said act shall, in such certificates as he shall hereafter
make, certify
that the money due bears interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum,
from
the first day of August, seventeen hundred and eighty; and the said commissioner
is also to certify under his hand, if required, on any certificate already
granted by
him, and produced to him for that purpose, that the interest thereon commences
from the first day of August aforesaid. |
Officers, &c.
esteemed part
of the quota
of this state,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted and it is hereby declared, That all officers and men
in service, who are esteemed and allowed by the acts of congress as part
of the
quota of this state of the continental troops, and no others, shall be
allowed by
the said commissioner as the officers and soldiers of the troops of this
state within
the intent of the said act. |
Persons re-enlisting
to be
allowed, &c. |
V. And,
whereas many persons, who served as non-commissioned officers and
privates in the quota of this state of the continental army for one year
or more,
on the expiration of the time for which they enlisted have either been
advanced to
be commissioned officers, or have enlisted in the quota of this state,
and now are,
or at the time of passing the said act were, in the quota of the state,
or hereafter
may enter into the service for three years or during the war: Be
it enacted, That
any such person shall be allowed for the depreciation of his pay which
arose in
the time of his service aforesaid, as if such person had entered as a recruit,
according
to the act of the last session to procure recruits; and that in the settlement
of the account of the officers and soldiers of the troops of this state,
within
the intent of the said first mentioned act, the same act shall be taken
to commence
on the second day of February, seventeen hundred and eighty-one. |
How the price
of cloathing is
to be settled,
&c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That in the settlement of the price of any cloathing
chargeable to any of the said officers or men, whether furnished by this
or the
United States, the commissioner shall charge the same at the price the
like cloathing
or goods sold for on the seventh day of October, seventeen hundred
and seventy-six,
but not to exceed the current price of such goods in times of peace, with
fifty per cent. added thereto. |
Officers in the
medical department
to be
settled with. |
VII. And,
whereas inhabitants of this state of the medical department, not attached
to the line or quota of troops of any state, are not included in the act
to
settle and adjust the accounts of the troops, and are recommended by congress
to
be provided for by this state; Be it enacted,
That the said commissioner shall
settle and adjust the accounts of such officers of the medical department,
according
to the scale of depreciation by this and the former act. |
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