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CHAP.
XXII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
a report to the executive of the damage done by the enemy
in his county, with the species of property
carried off or destroyed, his opinion of the value, and the names of the
proprietors; and, in this report,
he was to include vessels destroyed on the stocks, or before they were
rigged. For his trouble, the county
court was to make him such allowance as they though proper.
This provision being made in consequence of a requisition
from congress, the executive was requested
to transmit, to the minister of foreign affairs, quadruplicate copies of
each report, under the seal of the
state. |
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CHAP. XXIII.
An ACT concerning estates tail. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS common recoveries are considered as a mode
of conveyance
by which tenants in tail are enable to convey and dispose of their
lands and tenements, but the said mode of conveyance is attended
with an heavy expence and great inconvenience, by reason of a necessary
and
chargeable attendance in many cases on the general court: |
How estates
tail may be
conveyed, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That any person or
persons, seized of any estate tail, in possession, reversion or remainder,
shall have
full power to grant, bargain, sell and convey, any lands tenements or hereditaments,
whereof he, she or they, shall be so seized, by such manner and form of
conveyance or assurance as any person seized of an estate in fee-simple
may, by
the laws of this state, grant, bargain, sell and convey, any lands, tenements
or
hereditaments, whereof such person is seized of an estate in fee-simple;
and all
and every such grants, bargains, sales and conveyances, of any person or
persons
so seized in tail, shall be good and available, to all intents and purposes,
against
all and every person and persons, whom the grantor, bargainor or vendor,
might
or could debar by any mode of common recovery, or any ways or means whatsoever,
any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
A Supplement to the act for the liquidation and payment of debts
against persons convicted of treason. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS many persons may have claims against persons
convicted
and attainted of treason, and British subjects, whose property has been
confiscated and seized by this state, and there is no mode by which
such claims can be liquidated and paid: |
Claims to be
adjusted, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That every person,
having any account, debt, claim or demand, against any subject convicted
and
attainted of treason, and whose property has been or may hereafter be sold
by
law, or any British debtor, whose property has been seized and confiscated,
may
lay his account, debt, claim or demand, before the auditor-general, who
is
hereby empowered and directed to liquidate and adjust the same, and the
balance,
if any, shall be signed by the auditor, and being examined by the governor
and
council, may be delivered by the claimant to the treasurer of the western
shore,
who is hereby directed to assign to him any bond or bonds, taken for the
sale of
the particular estate of which he was a creditor, that may be lodged in
the treasury,
or he may receive the money therefor, or a certificate, which may be discounted
in taxes, at the option of the claimant or creditor, provided the same
do
not exceed the amount of the property sold as aforesaid. |
Commissioners
to sell property,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the commissioners appointed for the preservation
and sale of confiscated British property, are hereby authorised and directed
to
make sale, at public vendue, or so much of the property of such persons
confiscated
or forfeited as aforesaid, at one year's credit, with good bond and security,
as will discharge the claims lodged as aforesaid; which said bond shall
be lodged
with the treasurer of the western shore, and may by him be assigned to
any
claimant or creditor, who had the account, claim, debt or demand, against
the
particular estate. |
Claimant to
receive a dividend,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That when the just debts against any particular estate
amount to more than the sales thereof, that it shall and may be lawful
for the
claimant or creditors aforesaid to receive a dividend, in proportion to
each particular |
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