| 1782.
CHAP.
XII.
Form of a
register. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
II. And be it
enacted, That registers for any such ship or other vessel be
granted in the following form: State of Maryland, sc. I, _____
_____,
do certify to all whom it may concern, that in pursuance of an act of the
general
assembly of this state, A. B. of _____ made oath or affirmation before
me,
that the ship or vessel called _____, whereof _____ _____ is master, being
_____ sterned vessel, of _____ feet keel, and of the burthen of _____ tons,
was built at _____ in the year _____ (or if a captured vessel or foreign
bottom,
was captured in the year _____, or was built at _____, or belongs to
_____) and that no subject of Great-Britain, or any other state or power
at enmity
or war with this state, or the United States, or any of them, directly
or
indirectly, hath any share or part, or interest therein. Given under
my hand
and seal, in the _____ year of the independence of this state, and on the
_____
day of _____ in the year 17 . |
Register not
to be granted
before oath
made, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That no register shall be granted, before the captain,
supercargo, mate, or the person, merchant or factor, employed in procuring
or
building any such ship or other vessel for a foreigner or citizen of the
United
States, shall make and subscribe the said oath, or affirmation if a quaker,
menonist
or dunker; and a regular entry shall be made of every such register. |
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CHAP. XIII.
An ACT empowering Martin Harry, administrator of John Waley, to sell
and
dispose of a certain house and lot in the town of Shipton,
in Washington
county. PR. |
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CHAP. XIV.
An ACT for the relief of Charles Blair and Lilly his wife, lately called
Lilly
Hamilton. PR. |
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CHAP. XV.
An ACT for the relief of certain nonjurors. PR. |
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CHAP. XVI.
An ACT to make valid the recording a deed from Matthew Sparks and Margery
his wife, to John Hamilton, of Prince-George's county. PR. |
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CHAP. XVII.
An ACT for the relief of sundry persons appointed collectors for Pocomoke
and
Annamessex hundreds, in Somerset county. PR. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
An ACT to authorise the commissioners for the preservation and sale
of confiscated
British property to convey certain land in Wiccomico
manor to several of
the tenants thereof. PR. |
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CHAP. XIX.
An ACT concerning forfeited lands, which may be entailed with
limitations over in reversion or remainder. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, on conviction and attainder of tenant in
tail for treason,
the reversion or remainder expectant thereon was not affected or barred
by the laws of forfeiture and confiscation under the late government,
where the person or persons in reversion or remainder were other persons
than the offender or his heirs: And whereas it appears to this general
assembly,
that some of the lands lately seized and confiscated by the act, entitled,
An act
to seize, confiscate and appropriate, all British property within this
state, are entailed
lands with limitations over in remainder to persons not heirs of the tenant
in tail, and it may so happen, that other lands, so seized and confiscated,
may
be also entailed with the like limitations: |
Rights of reversion
preserved,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, and
it is hereby declared,
That tenant in tail, on conviction and attainder for treason, or tenant
in
tail, whose property has been seized and confiscated by the act aforesaid,
shall
forfeit no other estate than during life and the continuance of heirs of
his body,
and that the rights of all persons in reversion or remainder, other than
the offender
or his heirs, shall be preserved, and not affected or barred by such forfeiture. |
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